This is True Mother’s message to National Messiahs and Senior Pastors that took place in Cheong Pyeong on November 12, 2014.
Thank you for your hard work.
When we talk about November, we refer to it as the season of harvest and the season of fruition. I do not think those who are sitting here today are in the springtime of their lives. Is it autumn, or is it winter? How much assets do you have?
Your assets are your brothers and sisters. You have heard many times how important it is to fulfill your responsibilities as heavenly tribal messiahs. Yet, people tell me that it was difficult because of this and that, and that there are so many situations to consider. If we really thought that this was our last chance, how would we respond?
As people who know about the eternal world, if you knew that you could never see another spring again in your lives, what would you do? Especially as people who have pioneered and worked with True Parents while they were on the earth, you have a responsibility. Adam and Eve fell because they were not serious in addressing this issue.
You just saw on the screen a brief cut about the life of a monarch butterfly, which is only about three to four centimeters in length. The size of its brain is about the same as the tip of a needle. Yet, a new butterfly born as a larva flies to the very place where other butterflies had gone and died. Isn’t this profound and mysterious? Human beings use a compass and what they have learned to find their way. How could this tiny being with a brain the size of a dot—I mean smaller than what you’d get if you prick something with a needle—navigate to safety, multiply and fulfill its responsibility? When we observe these things, we are humbled by Mother Nature to realize that we should be so much more serious about fulfilling our own destiny and responsibility. Yet, you are people whom Father remembered when he was alive. You are people he kept in his heart. That is why he said that he would place you in the position of Cheon Il Guk owners in the new era. Think about this. A king cannot exist without his subjects. As you carry out your responsibilities as a national messiah or a tribal messiah, you need to raise people, your subjects. You need to witness. Only then can you fulfill your given responsibilities. A person who fails to fulfill his responsibilities is without a future.
I am sure you all want to leave a glorious name and legacy that makes True Parents proud and happy. The reason why I called you here today is because I love you. I love you all. I want you to advance together with me. If we had already come to this realization and made effort, we would not have sent True Father off at his Seonghwa in this kind of environment. We would have been able to send him off on top of a national foundation. When you think about this, do you know how blessed you are that I am alive today? That is why you should not put off fulfilling your responsibilities.
Dr. Lek and that couple in the Philippines that was successful both started from nothing. They started by themselves. If they can do it, so can you. You have been following True Parents for forty and fifty years. You are blessed families, elder couples and national messiahs and hold other fancy titles. Yet, the point is whether you have done that much more of your responsibility with each title. That is the issue.
As Secretary General Kim Man-ho just reported, there is no reason why Korea cannot be the home for the fifth UN office. It can. If it can’t it’s because of us, because we didn’t yet fulfill our responsibility. Imagine what would happen if our influence grew.
You need to have a greater sense of responsibility. Do you understand? Do not put this off until your children’s time. Didn’t I tell you that I would bring an end to the arduous six-thousand year providence of restoration through indemnity in my lifetime? My children also have their own portion of responsibility. Why would you not have it too? I gave you a chance. The conclusion is that you should no longer postpone fulfilling your responsibility.
So, will you make this determination and stand up? A minute ago, Rev. Kim Myeong-dae mentioned that nothing is impossible if you offer devotion for one hundred days. If you can unite in heart, body, mind and harmony with True Parents and live each day in such a way, nothing can be an obstruction to you. The environment will draw everything to you. You are living in a time where you can actually feel these things happening. If we open our hearts we will see it. Should you be less than a monarch butterfly!
I personally enjoy watching nature documentaries. I have watched many. I heard the other day that there is a certain bird that lives in Alaska called the long bill. When preparing for the winter, the long bill flies nonstop for ten days to Austria. Isn’t that amazing? It flies nonstop. It prepares itself before the flight. Who taught it to do that? So many things in nature are truly humbling.
Have we ever strenuously made effort, like this bird, for ten days, without eating or sleeping, for the sake of restoring our neighbors, our tribe or our nation? Even this bird, which cannot speak, exerts itself in this way to multiply its own kind. What can we say for human beings who were created as the lords of creation? We are our Heavenly Parent’s masterpiece in all of creation. Should we be any less than a butterfly or a bird? We should not let ourselves be put to shame.
True Parents have taught you this—they taught you everything—how to live and how to bring closure to your lives. When I say bring closure, I mean making arrangements in your environment so that you can live eternally with True Parents in the eternal world.
Don’t say that you are old. Are you old just because you are in your seventies? That’s why I have been telling you to take good care of your health and to exercise. Don’t you want to become younger? You first need to have a younger mind.
In the early years of the church, when you first encountered God’s word, you were excited and felt as if you could gain the nation and the world at any moment. Over the years many aspects of the environment have formed. The issue is now about you.
The Bible was translated into English, and then the Puritans crossed the Atlantic in search of freedom of religion and migrated to America. They risked their lives at that time. Later, many of them would starve to death even while they kept the grain they had brought to sow seeds in the coming year. They were thinking about their future generations. When the crops bore fruit and were harvested, the first thing they did was offer thanks to God. That is basically the origin of Thanksgiving Day.
I think turkey was the closest and most substantial meat they had at that time. Anyway we are told it was turkey. So even though it’s a bit early, I would like to treat you all to turkey today.
There is a sign marking the place where the Pilgrim Fathers had arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Shouldn’t you become victors and progenitors? Shouldn’t you be wearing such a nameplate? Yet, can this be done just by talking? If you want to live up to your faith, you need to move your body.
Do you understand? Will you do that? Can I trust you? I very much want to believe you with a pure and loving heart. Inspire me with joyful testimony I can share with True Father in heaven.
