Cheon Seong Gyeong: Episode 20

Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 1: God
Chapter 4: The God Who Needs Liberation
Section 1: God's Sorrow and the Providence of Restoration, 14-28

(14) Of the beings in this world, none is more deserving of sympathy than God.  God has labored harder than anyone; He is the King of hard work. From the moment God created human beings He had to relate with them, even if He did not want to face them. God could not avoid this destiny, because He is their Father.  Throughout history, God has struggled to relate with human beings.  For six thousand years He has been unable to separate from them, even for one second.  At the same time, God has to relate to people who believe that He destined them to a life of screaming and moaning.  How miserable does that make God?

(15) God has been the God of sorrow throughout history, in every age.  God was sorrowful in the past and remains so in the present.  Those who do not recognize and respond to our grieving God will face judgment.  If you truly love God, how can you ask Him to take away your pain and sorrow? God has taken responsibility for all the pain and sorrow throughout history, and we should feel indebted and grateful that He has done so.  Yet without recognizing this fact, we bring our own pain and sadness to God.  For this, we are bound to face judgment.  God will recognize the person who weeps alone over his or her own sorrow, unable to pray to God about such personal pain, knowing that God has already endured so much pain and sorrow through all the ages of history.  We must be the sons and daughters who can say, "God, Your pain is so great compared to mine! I will manage my own situation.  Please let me do Your work, even if I have to face death.” If you constantly ask God for blessings, you will not be able to raise your head before God.  You should recognize how sinful that attitude is.  The more deeply you go into the realm of God's love, which is full of grace, the more you will realize that you are a sinner who cannot lift your head in front of God.

(16) God, the eternal being, sheds tears for us.  His tears are to eliminate the way of death, the way of pain and the way of sorrow.  God sheds tears to eliminate all of these paths.  We need to understand that God is shedding blood, sweat and tears for us to eliminate the ways of sorrow, pain and death.  Then, it is only right that we take His Will upon our shoulders so that He does not have to keep going to the point of death on our behalf.  Thus far, God has placed our ancestors in positions where they had to shed tears, shed their blood and sweat, and confront death.  It was not because God had no love that He did this; He did so in order to ultimately eliminate such situations.  Yet God Himself experienced much greater suffering than they.  How painful it is for a father and mother to see the death of their beloved child! How their heart is grieved to watch their child suffer! It is more painful than if they were to die themselves.  With such a painful heart, God has been suffering throughout human history.  We may have to endure pain, but it is just within our one generation; then we are done with our responsibility.  But God had to endure that kind of indescribable pain every time our ancestors went the way of death, the way of tears, the way of blood and sweat, and the way of sorrow and suffering.

The Parent whose position was usurped

(17) God’s original position was as our True Parent.  Yet something occurred that had nothing to do with the original ideal of creation, and His position as the True Parent was usurped.  Although God is the Creator, He was unable to intervene and prevent this from happening.  Nevertheless, He has been taking responsibility to deal with It ever since.

(18) God's enemy deprived Him of His throne.  Unable to become the God of glory, He was left to preside over a history of sorrow.  Although God most certainly is the King of His kingdom and King of the universe, He has been treated with contempt, as if He were dead.  Meanwhile, All his beloved children were violated and the planet Earth became the enemy's playground.

(19) As a result of the Fall, God became the Parent who lost His children.  Is there any father or mother who delights in his or her own glory while their children are in prison? It is the same for God; it fills Him with endless pain.  Further, God created everything in the universe for human beings, but as a result of the Fall, God had to hand his children over to Satan's authority.  From the moment He lost His beloved object partners, God, the Lord of true love, became infinitely lonely.  Moreover, God could not exercise His authority as the Lord of all things, not even once.  Even fallen people can boast, but God has never had the chance to demonstrate His full authority and stature as the Creator.  Even though He is the Lord of all living things, God could not assume His majesty in front of them, not even once.

(20) What was lost as a result of the Fall? First, the ideal world of true love was lost.  Second, the ideal family of true love was lost; in particular, the husband and wife of true love were lost.  Third, their sons and daughters of true love, the first grandchildren of God, were lost.  These are God's three kinds of sorrow.

(21) God's era, in which He hoped to complete His Will, disappeared without a trace because of the Fall.  The Fall brought fundamental destruction to the place where He had created all things in hope.  Everything that He had planned, the realm of His ideal object partners of eternal love, was violated and destroyed at the root.  How sorrowful God must have been when Adam and Eve committed the Fall and disappeared from His presence.  They were to have been God's ideal partners, embodying God's pure original love.  How bitter God's grief must have been over losing them.

(22) Christians say that God is the glorious judge who consigns people to hell or to the kingdom of heaven.  Yet in fact God is the most miserable being in the world.  When the Fall turned the brilliance of heaven and earth into the darkness of hell, God went through the most unimaginable and bitter pain.  It was as Though God Himself plummeted into hell.  Yet when He opened His eyes, came back to consciousness and regained His composure, He became intent on recovering His children who had died.

(23) God and human beings should be together for eternity.  Can we imagine God's pain and indignation when the first human beings separated from Him? Can we comprehend His bitterness and sorrow? They should have grown to maturity while building a foundation of love for God that they would not have exchanged even for the entire universe.  This would have established a single axis, so that vertical and horizontal could meet on a level plane.  Had the first human beings done this, they would have become the standard of love for all existing beings and for all things of creation in heaven and on earth.  Then, any being that connected to their love would have been able to reach that standard.

(24) God wants His partners of love to be better than Himself.  His beloved partners are none other than us, human beings.  Nonetheless, we lost that privileged value and instead came to struggle throughout our lives.  How miserable God must feel when He looks at us! He thinks, "They were meant to be My direct children, inheriting My love, My life and My lineage.  But now they are struggling as victims who moan and lament in pain and wander in despair until the end of their lives.” How miserable God must feel, looking down at this.  He is such a sorrowful God.

(25) When you are comforted by someone who has more reason to be upset than you, you can find some consolation in that. However, God has no one to comfort Him, because He has more grievances than anyone in the world. God is the alpha and the omega. A knot of bitterness remains in the depths of His heart. How can He resolve it? This has been God's deep, inner anguish. Under these circumstances, God has carried out the providence of restoration to this day. The spirit world transcends time and space; hence, even the sorrow of six thousand years ago can persist forever throughout the realms formed by the ages of history.  If you have ever experienced the joy of devoting yourself as a true offering, you will never forget that experience for the rest of your life.  With the passage of time, more and more people will recognize and respect you for your offering.  The breadth and depth of your offering will increase, and you will be ever more deeply connected with the infinite Origin.  When you have such mystical experiences, you will recognize that God's sorrow has not been merely momentary, but has continued up to the present day.

(26) We should not thoughtlessly insist on our own desires, putting ourselves first.  How can we simply assert our own views if we understand even a little about the heart of God? God is immersed in bitter sorrow as He labors behind the scenes of history to lead the providence of restoration, trying to find His lost children who can express their true selves.  Day and night, we have to live to build the ideal family.  If only we can build the ideal family that God has awaited for six thousand years, that is precisely where the original peaceful world will begin.  The ideal family is the starting point of the kingdom of heaven on earth.  It is from that point that God's bitter sorrow will begin to dissolve.

God's unchanging Will

(27) God is the Absolute Being.  Therefore, He must accomplish what He has purposed, and He must bring His Will to pass.  In order to rectify the situation that arose after the Fall, God must put Adam and Eve into a repair shop, remake them into people who can receive God's original love, and place them in the ideal positions they had prior to the Fall.  Then, having restored them as the Parents, God must connect All his children to them.  Because God is in the situation where He must do all this, He had to begin the providence of salvation.

(28) God's Will cannot change.  Although there are countless people in the world, there is only one way to advance toward the accomplishment of God's Will.  There is only one way because God is absolute.  There cannot be two ways.  You cannot just go this way and that as you please.  God's way is one straight line.