Contradictory phrase: self-centered love

What kind of love is free sex? Is it not self-centered love? It is love that only thinks about the self without thinking about how it influences others, is it not? Such love has no relationship with God. If the powerful people in the secular world were to use their power centering on themselves, they would have no relationship to God at all.

-- Hyun Jin Moon, Fukuoka Church Visit, December 11, 2004

Become a model

I wish to share my thoughts on speeches rather than just copy and paste, but this few paragraphs are very clear and parallel to my own thoughts. So, I just pasted it here:

"Everyone here has parents and teachers, and you also have the leader of your nation. Correct? These are things everyone undeniably needs. However, when compared to the true standard, there are many different levels of parents. What do you think? To what extent have you, yourself, become True Parents? In the same way, if a person is a professor at an Ivy League university such as Harvard, Yale or Columbia in the United States, or Oxford and Cambridge in England, does this mean that he or she can be called a True Teacher? Similarly, there are different types of leadership in a nation compared to the true standard of leadership. Even if someone is the president of a superpower such as the United States, does this mean he or she is a True President?

In fact, today in the family, children do not trust parents. Between spouses, there is no complete trust. Brothers and sisters also don't trust each other fully. Furthermore, students do not trust the teachers in the schools, and the people do not trust the leaders of their nation.

So the problem is, how can we attain the true standard of even one of these three most important positions of parents, teacher and leader?

When I say you should become True Parents, True Teacher or True Leader, what do you think is the highest standard or central model for those three positions? That is God. God is the True Parent among parents, True Teacher among teachers, and True King among kings. God is the Eternal True Parent, Eternal True Teacher, Eternal True Leader and King. If we are children of God, we need to become True Parents first, just like God. We should also follow the way of the True Teacher, just like God. And we need to follow the way of the True Leader, just like God. This is the idea of the three primary positions. The ultimate model is God."

PS: See glossary on the use of the word "true"

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Offering the Glory

Some thoughts after watching Hyung Jin Nim's Sermon, Offering the Glory, on 22 Dec 2007.

When we have, we feel at ease to give.

When we find uncomfortable to give, it implies that we don't have, or we do have but feel we don't.

Have faith therefore is to believe that we have because Heavenly Father loves us. Then, we will naturally feel at ease to give to others, to live for the betterment of the whole, to offer glory to others.

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