Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 116

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Part 3 Resurrection: Please Cut Off The Root Of Sin Through The Power Of The Original Nature, Pg 160

Please Cut Off The Root Of Sin Through The Power Of The Original Nature

Father! Please allow us to consider Your heart in silence and to be able to discover ourselves. The more that we think about it, we cannot help but discover that we are very far away from Your will. The first ancestors of humankind forsook You, and we lament that we have been born as descendents who must be ruined forever because of having gone the path of annihilation of the fall. And when we realize, while searching for You, the fact that there remains between us a great distance which is very difficult to close, we discover once again that there is nothing we can do about it. 

When we realize that we have been born from the root of death which multiplied, we realize that this is why the past is as it was, and why in the present we are entangled in the world of death and are being swept away, and we cannot help but discover that we are too distant from You to be part of You, Father. Therefore we know that we need the touch of Your love, and we need the touch of Your omnipotence.

Oh Father! Deep in our hearts and minds we possess the destined relationship of the original Nature. This alone is what we have inherited from You. Because of this, we know that it remains for us to form the destined relationship which we must form with You. In order to establish that relationship, You have awakened us through the course of history, and since Your are continuing to work for that today at this moment, please do not allow us to forget that fact.

Please allow us to recognize the desire that our original nature is earnestly crying out for, and please allow us to come to know that our original nature really desire to form a relationship with You, Father. And please allow us to come to know the fact that the bitter root of sin which is an enemy opposing the original nature is surrounding us.

Please let us come to know that it will not do unless the original nature appears to us representing Your power. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that You will raise up a new beginning of life that is able to trample and go beyond all the tangled relationships of death through the touch of Your omnipotence.

Father! Please bring about a new history that is able to cast out all the elements of sin through each one of us. In that way we will become one with Your heart, and one with Your situation in the midst of our lives. Please allow us to be able to offer ourselves to You as the true sons and daughters You wanted to find from a position where we can have hope and become one with the eternal future.

We have humbly prayed in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(July 7, 1968)