Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (146) Book 8. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace CHAPTER 15. God’s Kingdom of Peace Is the Eternal Home of Our Blessed Families
3. Living in accordance with God’s Will
From this perspective, it is vital to understand how to live in accordance with God’s Will, in the contexts both of daily personal life and of historical time. Before we talk about our hope that God’s Will be done and His kingdom come, we need to assess the degree to which we are living in oneness with His Will.
The Bible records a four thousand-year providence of restoration that includes Noah’s family, Abraham’s family, Moses’ family and Jesus’ family. We see that the mistakes the members of those families committed were not events extending more than a decade or several decades.
Those who erred did so in a single moment, yet the error in that one moment destined them and their descendants to a path of indemnity extending more than one thousand years, and caused peoples and nations to fall into a bottomless pit of destruction.
That reveals the seriousness and importance of each moment of our lives. Even the eternal kingdom of heaven cannot exist apart from the single moment. Eternity does not begin when a person dies; it begins when a person comes to know God’s Will. If even a single moment is skipped, or if there be even the smallest hole in time, eternity will cease to exist.
As people of faith, while it is good for us to dream of the eternal, it is even more important that we understand how to eradicate evil and advance goodness in the context of our own life in today’s reality.
In other words, what you need to fear most is not the judgment that will come in the Last Days; it is whether you are living each moment of your daily life in oneness with God’s Will. You need to be concerned about how your life intersects with the course of God’s Will.
The truth is that the circumstances of our families, societies, nations and world are not as we would like them to be. Therefore, we find ourselves dealing with all manner of difficulties, and we struggle back and forth on the cusp between good and evil.
Every single day we prepare and struggle to triumph over our circumstances. Even in terms of our daily schedules, we often experience that we cannot do all the things that we planned to do in the morning.
This is all the more the case as we take on a greater public role. We find that we need proportionally greater determination and driving force in order to conclude each day of our lives with victory. The days add up to become months, then years. Ultimately, they add up to form our entire life.
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