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
6. Life centered on the spirit - 3
It is said that human beings are the lords of creation. Yet a person does not become a lord of creation simply by virtue of being human. To be minimally qualified, a person must not live mainly for him or herself. They are rightly called lords who live for others and serve the whole. God is trying to accomplish His Will through such people. God is not building the kingdom of heaven for Himself. By having selfless people build the kingdom, He wants it to belong to them.
God created human beings to live forever. However if we were unable to cast off the yoke of this evil world during our sojourn of one hundred years or so on the earth, how would our life be superior to that of an animal? We differ from animals only because we are spiritual beings.
It turns out that the reason human beings can be the lords of creation is because our hearts never grow old. Nature is always changing. Even a rock, a symbol of permanence, cannot endure forever the effects of erosion. Only the human heart was created with the potential to remain unchanging for eternity. Hence the title, “lord of creation,” cannot be awarded based upon money or knowledge. It is not based on power. It is only based on true unchanging love, God’s love.
Ladies and gentlemen, what are the ties that will bind original human beings to each other? Original relationships involve sharing joy and exhibiting the values of praise and respect for each other. Above all, they manifest perfect true love within the realm of God’s absolute love.
Thus, original human beings are to encapsulate the harmonious oneness of all relationships in heaven and on earth. This is the very reason we have both an invisible mind and a visible body. If we had preserved the mind-body relationship that God had intended, then the mind and body, though distinct and different from each other in terms of function, would be eternally united and whole.
Please consider your own life. I don’t think you can deny that your mind and body often fight each other. How much longer are you going to allow this fight to continue? Ten years? A hundred years? Or will it not end even when you die? All beings in the universe were designed to display a definite order. This means God did not create us to exist in the imperfect state in which we now find ourselves. Your task now is to empower your mind and subdue your body. The grace of God will be with you in this effort.
In the relationship between the mind and body, the mind is the more important of the two. The body persists for about a hundred years and then passes away, however the mind, or spirit, will live for eternity, transcendent of time and space. You may spend your days on earth eating and dressing extravagantly, yet someday you will die, and then what? You are better off setting a good spiritual standard and then aligning your physical life to that standard. Become a person of integrity and wholeness embracing both spirit and flesh.
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