Raising Children In God's Will (141) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 5. The reason parents love their children
2. Because man is within the range of a vertical love - 1
Man is destined to be born because of love, to live by love, and to go back to his father for love.
Now that man originated from the seed of his father, the seed of love, man has to put forth his branches to the world, making lots of relationships with others, and then harvest the seed of love.
This is all that man ought to do on this earth. The seed of love is filled with every element of love for wife, parents, children and Heaven. Man lives as the seed lives.
Man whose life is given by God is to harvest such an outcome on this earth as the seed lives its life. Then, man will be reaped by God. What makes parents love their children in this world?
Why should parents sacrificially love their children more than the children do? It is because parents are in the vertical range of love and because both parents and the children are vertically connected to each other.
It is natural that even animals should sacrifice their lives for the sake of their young.
What makes them do so? It is for them to establish and connect a vertical relationship of love.
Man has to build the vertical relationship of love even at the cost of his life which is in a horizontal position.
In the same manner, those historical functions are working in the world of all things and animals, not to mention of in that of human beings.
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