God's Heart for Blessing

I would like to speak some on the subject of your spouse, as there are many engaged members here. Father has said that each couple is in the position of Adam and Eve. Six thousand years ago, Adam and Eve were the only people in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, it is Father’s direction for you to love each other completely, as if there were no one else in the world, even if there happens to be a handsome man or woman beside you.

I was in the group expelled from the Ehwa Women’s University; we were in a very sad situation. Father loved us especially; he often took us wherever he went. At the time of the blessing of the 36 Couples, many of these women had a complicated heart as they compared the men to Father. But Father knew their hearts very well.

He often asked us, “Do you have enough resolution to ‘risk your life for God and His will?” “Yes,” we answered. “Well, then,” he asked us before the blessing, “is it all right with you if you marry a black African?” We weren’t so quick to answer this time. Yet we determined ourselves to be able to marry a black African. So we answered, “Yes,” and we became really serious. Consequently Father knew that we would be very thankful to marry Koreans. If we had not been trained in such a way, we never would have been given Korean husbands. So please try to love each other and think that your husband or wife is the best.

When Father looks at us, he sees three generations: ourselves, our ancestors, and our children. Although God predetermined for mankind to be good, it hasn’t come out that way. We are like spoiled cabbages which have been salvaged from the trash. The spoiled parts are cut off and the good parts are cooked. God has such a hard time with us. How can we express the grief of God? If we have a torn piece of clothing and we fix the hole, we feel like it’s too good to be thrown away but not good enough to wear. When God gives us His blessing, He closes His eyes to our faults. At the blessing, He is both happy and sad. If we think about the victorious foundation we have made for God, we are happy; if we think of God’s sorrow that He has to bless such imperfect people, we are sad.

God created Adam and Eve with His whole heart to be such a beautiful man and woman that there would be no equal to them in the whole creation. But we have all become hollow and distorted. As a result of the fall, no one is perfect. Therefore, you don’t have any qualification to criticize the deficiencies of your spouse. Father, for example, closes his eyes to the bad spirit world around you. Instead, he makes every effort to start anew, looking only at you.

Therefore, if you try to evaluate your spouse, you make God and Father sad at best. Even if you witness very hard and work on the front line, you have no right to criticize your spouse. You have to know this well.

You should compete to find a beautiful part of each other. You will live happily if you can find beauty in your spouse. As you do so, your beauty will expand more and more. If you do this, you can have confidence that a child representing only the beautiful parts of each of you will be born.

Having a wonderful child depends on how wholeheartedly you work and on your foundation of faith. You have both good and bad ancestors. To have a relationship with your good ancestors, you should serve God, putting your greatest effort into fulfilling what ·God has asked of you. If you do, a wonderful child, quite different from you, will be born. Therefore Father looks at your children first. He can know the parents’ faith by whether or not the child is better than they are.