Chapter one
God’s True Love Is the Motivating Force for the Creation
Section 1. True Love is at the Center of God’s Desire
God
is the great King of truth, goodness, trueness, and love. (301-38, 1999.4.16)
Did
He exist from the very beginning, or did He come into being? Even God has
grown. We must know this. How can we know it? We can know it from the principle
that causes everything that resembles God’s original nature to start as a small
cell and grow. So what has made God grow? He has grown because of love, an
absolute love wherein God is the subject partner of love and human beings are
His object partners. (243-278, 1993.1.28)
God
created heaven and earth, not just to see human beings, but for the sake of
love. God cannot possess love by Himself, nor can He feel it on His own. Certainly,
He contains love, but He cannot experience the kind of love that overflows with
the joy of being in perfect harmony all by Himself. No matter how beautiful a
flower may be, it must give off a fragrance; no matter how sweet its fragrance
is, the wind must blow for that fragrance to be spread about. So, as the flower
needs the wind, God, too, needs an object partner who will stimulate Him.
(210-223, 1990.12.23)
True
love is God’s fundamental motivating force by which He creates; this is why He
likes true love more than anything. He can eat, just as we do. He has eyes and
a nose, as well. He has all those things. That is the kind of Being He is.
However, what He likes is not the lumps of gold that human beings covet. He can
make those things anytime He wants. The same is true with knowledge. God is
omniscient and almighty. He is the great King of knowledge and ability. (212-295,
1991.1.8)
The
depth of true love incorporates everything, going all the way back to the beginning
– when God was born. You have no idea how deep it is! It started at the very
origin of His existence. Even after a lifetime, we can never get there, and
even after going to the next world, we will continue developing toward that goal
for eternity. So it is inconceivable that husbands and wives would fight and
separate from each other.
Even
God has grown and developed. To the very depth of His beginning, He has had the
same origin as true love. At the point of origin, God was not first; love was
first. We say God has dual characteristics. Why dual characteristics? Dual
characteristics are cherished because of love. (246-286, 1993.4.20)
True
love can be a bridge that God can use as He wishes for His travels. When the
physical parts of the body are all united in love everything will be okay, and
when the inner aspects are united everything will be okay. The result will be
the same everywhere, whether in the north, south, east or west, whether in the heavenly
world or in the earthly world, or anywhere else. Through love, the members of
the body can freely interact and harmonize with one another. Only love has this
power. The same is true with organizations. When we absolutely establish a
political party on God’s behalf and say we will unite, we are saying that we
will do so centering on Him. (139-200, 1986.1.31)
Even
God absolutely obeys true love. He would even offer up His life for the sake of
true love. Why are both men and women willing to sacrifice their lives for true
love? The reason is that love precedes life. Why did God begin to exist? He
began to exist because of love, and He exists in order to love. Had there been
no concept of love, there would not have been a need for God to come into being.
Thus,
everything created by God is based on the pair system. For example, in the
mineral world cations and anions manifest love – though on a lower level – as
they intermingle. This is being announced for the first time in history as a
result of my coming into this world. I am the first in history to announce that
God regards true love as being absolute, and lives in absolute obedience to
true love. This is not something conceptual. It is fact. Thus God created the
universe in order to launch true love. (203-103, 1990.6.17)
True
love cannot exist without God’s involvement. Without God, not even the words
man, woman, family, truth and love can be called true. All of these are possible
only due to God’s involvement. He is the great King of truth, goodness, and
love. For this reason, nothing good exists anywhere if God is not involved. The
same applies to our work: Anything done without God is fraudulent and cannot be
trusted. This applies to everything. So, the eternal standard, the standard of
trueness, is established only on the basis of God’s involvement. (301-38, 1999.4.16)
How, then, can we distinguish between true love and false love? Egoistic love connects us to the devil, and altruistic love connects us to God and the laws of the universe. That is where the dividing line lies. God’s love gives, gives, and gives again, and then forgets that it has given. This is true love. A ninety-year-old grandmother tells her seventy-year-old son, “Hey, watch out for the cars when you go out today,” and relates to him as if he were still the young boy of many years ago. She has been telling him the same thing every day well into her nineties, but she never tires of saying it. True love is a love that loves endlessly and untiringly. (142-333, 1986.3.14)
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