Harmony and Unity Rooted in Heart - Application of Foundation of Substance
2017-02-16 · Source: tparents.org
The Divine Principle taught us that before the Messiah could be received, Foundations of Faith & Substance need first to be established by Cain & Abel. Because of these pre- requisite, it gave a lot of sense why the providence of restoration took a long course of prolongation which other religions couldn’t clearly explain with. Through these 2 Foundations we found the great significance of all the complicated stories written in the OLD Testament that are puzzles to many faith believers.
Here I would like to offer my reflections on this issue centered on Harmony & Unity rooted in Heart.
Foundation of Faith in a simple concept is our absolute vertical faith towards God in a parent-child relationship enveloped by purity of our hearts, selfless attitude and focused mainly on becoming the true filial children of heaven as our eternal goal. This is like a “ME-GOD” relationship. In actuality we relate to God through heart and mind in an invisible vertical form with the unseen living God and nobody could judge this relationship except our CONSCIENCE.
The fall is the separation of heart of man from God manifested thru disobedience and betrayal resulting to have formed a false lineage with satan. This is a very serious problem that couldn’t just be solved by having faith in God and believing superficially in God’s existence. It gave God a deep painful scar with more than 6000 years of sorrowful tears. The fall is the loss of that heartistic bond of harmony with God as our PARENT.
The Fall took place when the AA Lucifer failed to keep his position and responsibility due to greed, arrogance, excessive desire and failure to see in God’s viewpoint. Despite the strong temptation of AA Lucifer, the fall would not take place IF and ONLY IF Adam & Eve had a heartistic unity with God. A/E just looked at God as God in that position but never ever reached a bond of relationship that is rooted in heart that’s why absolute faith & trust never have been substantiated instead they succumbed to the temptations and fell into sins. For this reason, we lost God’s trust in us and our qualification to stand as His children.
A person who has relationship with God rooted in heart can never be swayed off simply even how strong the wind of temptations there are or even how heavy the weight of problems she is facing. Not even the volumes of trials and the unimaginable challenges can stop her from moving forward. Because that person absolutely believes that she is the daughter of heaven, and she understands “God’s will-words-works” to the fullest that is grounded to the very root.
This invisible course can only be fulfilled thru our relationship with True Parents who came and had gained the full authority to be the substantial representatives of Heavenly
Parent on the earth. This means that we have found its visible central axis where the restoration of this condition lost by Adam & Eve can completely be achieved
Only through our True Parents can heaven declare if we are standing successfully on this foundation thru their recognition which is the standard basis of judgment of the entire cosmos. Therefore, each of us need to go thru this path & achieve this eternal goal of becoming the most filial child of Heaven centering on True Parents as the absolute central figure to restore Foundation of Faith. We need to live our lives for the sake of our eternal parent wherein God’s heart-mind-words-will should be “OUR heart-mind-words- will” too.
Foundation of Faith is the basic and the very core content of successful restoration. We need to resolve within ourselves to be victorious truthfully over this course by establishing strongly our faith, trust and absolute submission to God centered on true heartistic relationship towards our True Parents and had to receive their commendations that we are certified filial sons and daughters of the heaven.
Then how do we describe Foundation of Substance? In reality, many central figures recorded in the Bible had succeeded in fulfilling the Foundation of Faith, however, not all of them overcame the hills of the Foundation of Substance. The Principle taught us the external details of how to fulfill this condition by overcoming the 4 Fallen Natures but I would like to focus more on its internal content.
We may ask why is it that even though central figures fulfill the foundation of faith successfully but failed in the Foundation of Substance, the providence still considered everything including the central figure as failure.
In truth, the core content for the success of both Foundations of Faith & Substance is base on Harmony & Unity rooted in Heart. They are ONE even though it needs to be fulfilled separately - Faith is for our internal status and Substance is for its application in actual visible relationship with others, and have to be victorious with each respective test.
Therefore in God’s eyes even though one may seems to be so vertically connected, or looks like very faithful in her commitment, that would not only be a measure of success unless she gains her victory in the Foundation of Substance which is an application of our victory in relationship with the invisible God towards the visible manifestations of God on the earth through our True Parents. This formula course is a universal cosmic condition that does not only apply here on the earth but continues even in the spirit world both inside and outside of UC community and is taking place in different levels one after the other.
Application of Foundation of Substance: Restoration of love and heart in all sorts of relationships.
Removal of Fallen Natures require unconditional love and no concept of I-ME-MY-MINE- Myself. It is a complete path of self-denial beginning from our relationship with God
down to the visible relationships with others. Foundation of Substance is actually true love in action. Father said, in order to overcome our fallen natures, we need to serve all people as our Abel.
We may have good attendance to all church activities but God wanted us to create family relationship with our church members too.
We may be an excellent member of the church but God wishes us to lay more ground works in the society too.
We may have a good family but God wishes us to take care of our neighbors too.
We may be a great daughter of heaven but God wishes us to become great daughter-in-law and loving wife too.
We can be ever faithful towards Father, but the test is how we can fulfill the substance of that faith towards Mother.
In relationship to our ultimate mission of becoming Heavenly Tribal Messiahs, all the things we have learned from the principle are all foundations of faith BUT going out to the society and giving them the Blessing to restore our tribes and communities is our foundation of substance.
HOWEVER its success can only be measured on how we have successfully raised these families to have heartistic relationship with our True Parents and build that culture rooted in the heart of heaven in their lifestyle.
Foundation of Substance deals with substantial visible people while we stood as God’s representatives in Abel position. Our success will be determined by how much we were able to manifest True Parents’ heart and Heavenly Parent’s love to all of humanity in whatever circumstance, situation and environment we are all in.
All are (will be & were) tested to be successful in the fulfillment of these 2 foundations since this is an absolute formula course in the path of restoration thru indemnity. Both of these Foundations require going thru internal pain and external suffering and had to emerge victorious with dignity and credibility to stand as people who could represent heaven with that ORIGINAL LOVE from God as the root of all relationships.
Lets all create that bond of heart that we can confidently call a harmonious family that is rooted in heart centered on our Heavenly Parent & True Parents of Heaven Earth & Humankind.*****