Prayers - Chapter 9 Devotion - 19. Please Let Us Become Living Offerings That Are Able To Represent This People, Humankind, And Everything Under Heave

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Prayers, A Lifetime Of Conversation With Our Heavenly Father - Sun Myung Moon

Please Let Us Become Living Offerings That Are Able To Represent This People, Humankind, And Everything Under Heaven

Father, Please remember the people here who are in the flower of the prime of their young lives. Their lips have not been defiled. Their eyes are still in a position that does not like the sorrowful color of the sky.

The heartbeat that pounds out of their hearts and their pulse and flesh and blood which spread out from it have not yet encountered the Satanic world. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will accept them as yours, Father, and that you will allow them to become your sons and daughters, who are able to sow for the people, to watch for the people, to speak for the people, and to fight for the people.

As they go past thirty and go past forty, human beings worry about the time until their final day of their lives being reduced. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow these young people to be able to not worry about the place they are going and to imagine it with hope, to have their hearts brimming over with the great hope of their youth, and to live profoundly, nobly and broadly while living together with you endlessly, and whispering quietly together with you endlessly.

Father, please remember the youth of the Sunghwa Association who are here. Please let them become living offerings who are able to represent the Unification Church, living offerings who are able to represent the thirty million people of Korea, and living offerings who are able to represent the three billion people of the world.

And we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let this become a time in which they will be able to pledge anew that they will become living offerings who can become examples for the many people of later generations, and please let them become people who are able to begin as new beings from tomorrow by letting this become a time in which they are able to re-determine themselves.

Please allow us to realize that now the Unification Chur ch, the Unification Movement, holds the rod of victory or defeat in relation to you in the future and that we are facing this kind of important great age which will decide whether we can fulfill the responsibility or not as the final shields.

Please let us realize that it will not do unless we are on this earth. We are insignificant, but we have stood together with heaven by representing the mission of humankind, and we have stood together with heaven in a destined relationship. Therefore, please allow us to realize that even a small person is strong and courageous, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become people who are able to realize that even people who are powerless are valiant.

Who is going to take responsibility for the thirty million Korean people who remain, for the three billion people of the world who remain, and our many ancestors in the spirit world? How very much you must have longed for a group of people who could say, "Please send me!" while looking up to heaven together with a burning desire to advance forward boiling up in our minds, which is able to mobilize our blood and our flesh, as we weep, kneel down, and join our hands in prayer!

This son who is appealing to you has waited impatiently for that; therefore, you have waited much more impatiently, haven't you? Please do not allow your sons and daughters who have bowed down before you here to become people who just put on outward appearances. Please do not allow them to become a group to be hated. Please do not allow the sound of the prayers they are offering to you as they bow down before you to be sounds that can be accused in the future.

These are people who have received blessings. Even if they have been in sorrowful positions, they have not been sorrowful people. They have not been sorrowful people because they are people who are able to make the thirty million Korean people weep loudly, and they are people who are able to make the three billion people of the world weep loudly if they come to shed tears out of sorrow.

Even if they go out to a position of death, even if their individual selves die, they are individuals who are able to make the thirty million people of Korea die for the Will, and they are people who are able to make the three billion people of the world die for the Will.

Therefore, we earnestly request and desire that you will allow them to become your sons and daughters whom you are able to believe and love, about whom you can believe and boast as the very beings heaven has sought for so long in relation to the stage of the remaining responsibility and mission, and please let them realize that they are not people to be pitied no matter what kind of position of suffering they go into.

Please let your glory of the ages be together with them on the shoulders of these young people who are growing, and please form a destined relationship between these people and the new destiny of the world, which will come to the thirty million people of Korea and all humankind.

We earnestly request that you will protect and guard them, Father, so that they will be sons and daughters who have no inadequacies and whom you are able to establish to represent the entire universe by being embraced in your bosom of pride, and by being embraced gently in the garden of the Will you had as your purpose.

We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.

March 15, 1963