Raising Children In God's Will (076) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 2. The Reason We Need Children
3) For the Sake of the Expansion of the Four Sides of a Relationship - 5
When you have a family, can you be satisfied with only the family? The family is not sufficient. It will want to expand.
Here we need a tribe, a race, a nation, world, and if there is spirit world, we also need the spirit world. And if God exist behind the spirit world, we need God as well. It extends like this.
Anything expanding does not mean the reduction of itself but the expansion of itself, and it does not mean the incompleteness of itself but the perfection of it.
So the more it goes up to a higher position, it will hold a more solid value of the higher level from a "plane" value. Solid value is not a stagnant value but a "circulation" value.
When it moves its action is not without purpose but has content, its movement is not purposeless, but makes action of purpose. Whatever direction it takes, it has to fit the purpose. Everything has that sort of thought. (110-68)
When ours and God's hope and conditions meet, what will God do? He will let us inherit all things. God wants us to become this kind of substance and own all things, and to have sons and daughters in such a position and to let the children inherit everything. Only a person like this can find and restore back and forth, left and right, above and below.
Any person without parents, spouse or children would be sad because centering on these elements, we must hold heaven and earth. We must be able to say, "Heavenly father is my father.
So the whole universe which He created is mine." We must be able to say, "His heart of historical hope, the realistic circumstances are mine, and the future he wants to create is mine." (12-150)
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