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Channeled by Young Soon Kim (The
Reporter) (2) Although I was living in God's tremendous
love and light, many times I failed to fully carry out God's wishes because I
did not clearly understand them. So continuing my prayer in many dimensions,
I made all kinds of efforts to keep the standard of always saying
"Yes" to God immediately. As this effort continued to some extent, I
came to realize little by little that God is a being who stays very near to
me. God helped me become mature in many ways. He sometimes appeared in a
brilliant and colorful light and sometimes in a whirlwind of light. Sometimes
He appeared as an evening light coming from far away and waited until I
welcomed Him by calling, "God." In fact, God is love itself. When I did
not realize God's presence, that light just stayed there without motion, and
when I realized that God was present, then it
disappeared instantly. I realized that God is always with me only after this
was repeated countless times. Afterwards, one day I prayed with tears of
gratitude, saying, "God, thank you. Why do You love me so much? Why do
You give me just love, when I am so dull?" Then, God embraced my whole
body like warm spring sunshine and told me, "I have been with you from a
long time ago, and yet you have been just you. Now that you have realized My
will, go ahead and fulfill your mission. Pray to find out what your mission
is.'' And then He left. I was almost leaping with gratitude and
joy. I prayed continuously in order to find my mission, saying, "God
please help me. Give me the wisdom to discover my mission." But God did
not directly tell me about my mission. When I prayed, I felt one thing common
to every prayer: unless I totally emptied my own self before God, I could not
realize God's will and teaching. I experienced that if I prayed after deeply
reflecting on the statement, "You are you, so pray that you become
Me," some insight would immediately dawn upon me. From this experience,
I came to understand the following facts: God is clearly alive, and the
living God appears to us as light. This light is not easily available to
human senses, but if we unify our minds and bodies and sincerely desire and
pray to be near God, He embraces us as many different forms of light. And I
must make this known, and I have finally realized that this is my mission. From that time on, I have conveyed the God
of my experience in many images to many people. Now when God comes near me, I
experience a kind of intense trembling. I have received from God the mission
to make this known to many. God is love. He appears to us as light.
And God always stays with me. All people must discover and feel this God. April 25, 2000 3. God as Discovered by (1) An Experience of God When I was living on earth, I was very
curious about God, but I was only able to form a vague idea of God, because
we human beings cannot see or feel God. But any human being must think about
God at least once in his life. Could there be anyone who has not wished to
see God at least once or has not thought that God is helping us at least in
some vague way? Although we cannot touch or see God, we cannot escape even
for a minute from the thought of the existence of God. This is what we are
like. I, Augustine, also had many questions
about God, and yet saw no way to find their answers. On the other hand, it is
also true that we do not have a firm logical ground to deny His existence.
Who is God? I would like to write about God as I have found Him in as much
detail as possible. In the spiritual world, we cannot indicate
periods as we do on earth, for instance from when to when, and how many years
and months. But in my case, earthly people will be able to count my time in
the spiritual world from the time of my departure. As I mentioned earlier
from the time I entered the spiritual world until now, I have had a desire to
record God's will, God's profound truth, the history of God's providence, the
relationship between God and human beings, and so forth. I found God to be the unique being who has
existed from the beginning of the universe. What expressions should I use to
thoroughly satisfy your curiosity? In a nutshell, God is literally the
honored being of oneness (based on the Korean word for God, hana-nim). He is
an absolute and unique being, of whom there can never be a second. Also, He
is immensely large, fully present on the entire earth, omnipresent, and
omnipotent. As a whole, however, God can never be captured in human thoughts
or concepts; hence, no language that expresses something about God can be
entirely accurate. It is thus impossible for me to describe the God of my
experience as a whole and in every detail; even if it were somehow possible,
you would not have the conceptual categories with which to grasp what is
presented to you. Part But at least I would like to provide a few
examples showing God as I have experienced Him. One day, during prayer, I had
a desire to see God. I prayed continuously, wondering, "What would God
look like?" Then, suddenly, thunder and lightning struck from all
directions, an atmosphere of terror attacked me, and I started trembling with
vehement fear, asking God, "God, what is going on?" Then all of a
sudden, the thunder and lightning disappeared, and I saw a light shining like
a jewel and warm like the shimmering haze hovering over a meadow in spring. I
wanted to touch that light because it was so beautiful and mysterious. This
crystal clear light was turning around slowly like a snail, and kept
disappearing and reappearing in a flash. After this repeated itself many
times, the light changed into dazzlingly full colors and started turning
around like a whirlwind. At the same time, magnificent fireworks were
erupting on one side, and a brilliant rainbow was shining on the other. All
of heaven and earth were filled with gorgeous light. On one side, light
emerged from lovely clouds like a rain shower. Nonetheless, I know that it is
impossible to express God properly in any language. My eyes were so dazzled by this scene, and
I was simply lost in the ecstasy. Then, all of a sudden, a loud voice called
out, saying, "Lower your head." The voice also said, "Have you
now seen God's image? God is not someone you can behold with your head
straight as you are trying to do." So I dropped my head, kneeled down,
and prostrated myself. Repeating "I am sorry, God, I am sorry," I
started to see myself. In this atmosphere, I experienced for the
first time an enchanted and peaceful heart like I had never felt during my
earthly life, and I felt confident that in such a state I could overcome any
difficulties and resolve any problems. Throughout my entire earthly life, I
had never felt or heard of such an enrapturing spirit. This feeling of
happiness and confidence was so amazing that it simply defies description. I
felt that this glorious light could melt away all my failings, sorrows,
shame, hatreds, frustrations, and distrust, as well as all my pain and joy.
It may be appropriate to call it a furnace that melts down everything. Although I want to express the manifold
images of God, I honestly feel at this moment that my description is short
and unable to convey everything. One thing I could ascertain from this
experience, however, was that God who revealed Himself in my experience is
embracing us as a beautiful and crystal clear light of tens of millions of
volts. I also realized that God comes to us in many different forms according
to the different shape we each have. April 27, 2000 (2) Where God Stays God, who is omnipresent and omnipotent,
cannot be judged by ordinary human thinking. God wants to be always present
in our hearts and stay with us in all areas of our life. But God's desire to
do so failed to materialize because we have failed to be one with Him.
Although God has always come to us with a parental heart, we have failed to
serve Him, and although He has always stayed beside us, protecting and loving
us, we have failed to sense and realize it. Although God has been embracing,
caressing, and caring for US from time immemorial, we have been living on
without being able to experience Him. This is the root of God's sorrow and of
all human tragedy. While living on earth, I experienced God's
love to some extent, and yet this was based on my physical senses, and thus
utterly incomparable with the love of God I have experienced here in the
spiritual world. One day, while praying to God, Augustine,
a human being, was wishing, "If only I could always be with God,"
when God's voice sounded with gentle light, saying "Listen, Augustine. I
have always been with you and will always be with you, too. You, however, are
looking for Me, although you are always beside Me. This is because you and I
have not always been one." I asked Him, "How can I be one with
You?" but without answering, God embraced me for a while with a charming
light and went away somewhere. I prayed and waited for a considerable time in
order to attain God's answer. One day, the brilliant light appeared again in
a flash, and God said, "You are still you. How much have you tried to
become He?" I replied, "God, I have made
no small efforts to achieve it, but I can not easily feel what it means to
become like You." God then answered, "Augustine, abandon yourself,
and empty your heart. Cultivate the field of your heart so that God can dwell
in it anytime." God wants to dwell in the heart of every
one of us and live with us, and yet since Augustine's heart of prayer, heart
of thinking, and heart of remembering others were all filled with
self-centered desire - selfishness - God could not find His house in him.
Here in the spiritual world, I have experienced this so much, down to the
bone. But this filth is still lurking in the heart of Augustine. We can meet
God only after removing all selfish desires from our hearts. I am making
continuous efforts for that day. For that day. April 28, 2000 (3) God's Love We receive our body from our physical
parents and live our lives in their love. Hence, we are always ready to honor
the love of our physical parents. This is because we experience our parents'
love through our physical senses. On the other hand, since in general we
cannot sense God's love through our physical senses, we live our lives with
little concern about God's love. In fact, however, God's love plays a far
greater role in our whole life than does the love of our physical parents.
Nevertheless, most of us fail to detect God's love. In my life on earth, although I realized
God's love to some extent, I fell short of understanding that God is giving
us a love far deeper and wider than we imagine. Even after I shed my body and
came here, I failed to realize this, despite experiencing God's love so many
times; hence, my repentance over a long period. I cannot describe my heart at
that time in words. I think it is only out of ignorance of God
that people serve Him, pray to Him, and make pleas to Him, for God knows in
advance what we need and has already prepared what we pray for, just as a mother
knows and prepares what her baby needs even before the baby cries for it.
After I came here and heard God's voice, many times I felt my shortcomings
and wrongs beyond my comprehension and thus made continuous prayers of
repentance. Every time I did this, God called me,
"Augustine," and then said nothing further. And when I kneeled and
bowed down, He would call "Augustine" a few times and then just
leave. When I became speechless and just prostrated myself and shed tears of
repentance, God called me and said to me, "Your tears hurt My
heart," and then left again. After this, I resolved never to cry before
God, in order not to agonize His heart. This is not everything about my
experience of God; I have experienced Him in many different dimensions. One day, in order to introduce God, I
zealously explained to someone the image of God I had directly experienced,
telling him that he could also meet God directly. After a few days, however;
God called me and said, "God cannot directly meet that person. So instead
of God, you go and testify to him about God. He still has a distance to cross
before meeting God. Just as I love you, so guide him in love. But do not tell
him that God cannot meet him directly." Through the long ages, although
God has wanted to live together with people, the providence of restoration
has been prolonged over and over again because people have continued to fall
short of the standard. My heart aches whenever I think about
this. I can confidently introduce God to anyone, and will continuously strive
to help all people to establish their own heartistic standard whereby they
can meet God directly. I will earnestly pray to quicken the day when all
humanity, as well as I, can cultivate the fields of the heart and correctly
establish our attitude of faith. 4. People In my life on earth, ever since I came to
know God, my life was focused in one direction. However, the God I had known
on earth and the God I have met here in the spiritual world are fundamentally
different; the God of my earthly experience was only a tiny part of the whole
picture. I have seen that the experiences of many other saints and believers
here with respect to God are almost the same as mine. Now I would like to
provide an account of their experience, without mentioning names. (1) Protestant Ministers 1. God's Equal Love When I settled down in the spiritual
world, it was in a realm where I could converse with God. There, I studied
continuously about God. In the course of this study, I wanted to collect
stories of other people's experiences of God, and so I met a few Christian
ministers. One of them had served Christ and devoted
himself solely to the ministry all through his life on earth. He said that he
met God on earth, after which he experienced God's love and the Holy Spirit,
and healed his own illness. He said, however, that there on earth he had had
only a very vague idea about God's real existence, thinking that God exists
somewhere but can never be found in finite space. He asserted, however, that
he clearly saw God's existence after coming here and that most people can
cure their own illnesses through the Holy Spirit. He then told me real
examples of human sicknesses cured by the Holy Spirit of God. However, he
continued, there are many cases of human sicknesses not cured by the Holy
Spirit of God, and he thought in many different ways about the reasons for
this. He explained that God's main business is not curing our diseases but
embracing all of us with equal love. Conveying his realization that God equally
loves both those who are cured and those who are not cured, he explained that
the former people were cured because they had more things to do on earth than
in the spiritual world, and the latter people were not cured because they had
more important business in the spiritual world than on earth. According to him, although the latter
people might deplore their own deaths, thinking only about their earthly
life, both groups of people are equally important
when seen from the standpoint of God's eternal providence. Thus, the
minister's conclusion was that God's love for us couldn't be measured,
judged, or expressed through ordinary standards or means. May 1, 2000 2. God's Everlasting Love God transcends time and space, and can
choose whether to appear to us or not. This means that although God's love
for us is infinite and eternal, there can be circumstances in which God
cannot be present. How sad this is! Here, I would like to introduce another
Christian minister's experience of God. He lived a long life of dissipation
before becoming a minister on earth. Until his youth, he had no interest in
God's existence or in matters of faith, and had no idea about the meaning of
life. After he passed his youth, however, he was captured by the thought that
God might really exist, and this was because he saw a youth who had been much
more spoiled than he embrace a new and sincere life through God's love. He clearly witnessed that this previously
wicked youth had changed his life after meeting God and was now living
sincerely for the sake of God, which deeply moved him. So he asked the youth,
'What is life for the sake of God, and how did you meet God?" and his
answer was very simple: "I realized God's love, but I cannot show or
explain to you the God whom I have met. I am living in full confidence of
God's love." The minister however, confessed that even after witnessing
the proof of this youth's life, he still lived carelessly for a long time
without understanding faith in God or the meaning of life, and then told me
the following story of how he experienced God's love. One morning, he woke up to dazzling
sunlight, and a ray of the sun was shining on him. In this light, he could
hear something like God's voice, saying, "Your eyes may be dazzled, but
open your eyes and see what that light is." When he opened his eyes,
there was no sunlight to be seen, and he could see only the light of Jesus'
cross shining from outside the window. He followed the light of the cross to
a place, where he found a pitiful old man left alone in a shabby house. After this, the light of the cross
disappeared, and as he recovered his senses, he realized that the old man was
none other than his father, whom he dearly loved. Although his father was
living alone so nearby, he had been living a dissipated life without caring
about his father. He felt tremendous regret. As he looked at the cross that
had disappeared, tears of repentance and flames of the Holy Spirit arose from
the depths of his heart. Repenting for having lived shamefully while
neglecting his suffering father, he called out for the Lord at the top of his
voice and prayed God to open the way in which he could proceed. At this
moment, he heard God's voice saying, "God's love is eternal. The
beginning is love, and so is the end. So you love your brothers and sisters
and your neighbors." After this time, his view of life
completely changed. Since there was no one around him to take care of him or
help him, however, he relied entirely on prayer. He determined to love his
own father first, who was so frail that he could not even stand up without
someone's help. Nevertheless, his father said to him,
"You leave my side and love and save humankind." At this time, the
love of his father and of God made him feel a pain that seemed strong enough
to melt heaven and earth. He then went to a friend of his and begged for
help, and the friend led him to the church and had him listen to God's word.
Thereafter, he made a determination to walk the path of a minister for the
sake of God and the development of the church. and
devoted himself to loving humanity with God's word. Although God is love from
beginning to end, we have almost no sense of His infinite love, and this is
why God's love and human life are separated. Whether on earth or in the
spiritual world, God's love is unfathomable, infinite, and eternal, and
although in many cases God's love may not clearly appear to us, He is still loving us continuously. It is only that we human
beings have a wrong idea about His love. God waited for him and came to him even
when he was living a wayward life, and here in the spiritual world, God loved
him without asking him about his past sins. God's love is the foundation of
eternal happiness, and the only problem is that we human beings are too dull
to realize this. This was his conclusion. May 3, 2000 3. God Is The Parent of All People Since we human beings are born through our
mother, we can easily understand our mother. Most people carry an image of
their parents, which they have in common through heavenly decree. Regardless
of who our parents are, we as human beings cannot escape from the problems of
life, death, suffering, and joy, or the ups and downs in our life on earth.
Hence, beyond our physical parents, this forces us to think about the
question of the existence of God, who is the parent of all humankind. A
question that we as human beings cannot but raise at least once in our
earthly life is the question of God's existence. I visited another minister to hear his
experience of God. Without exception, he also had seriously agonized over
such common human problems as were mentioned earlier. His parents died when
he was small, and thus he grew up poor in an orphanage without being able to
feel parental love. After a while, however, he was adopted by a rich family
and lived a happy life with his rich parents. But he anguished over the
unsolved problems of his physical parents, spiritual parents, and God's
existence, and as a result he undertook theological studies. He led an
uncommon life of faith and had an experience similar to that of Buddha,
through which he met God. He related that when God called him, He
always said, "My son! I am your Father" instead of calling his
name. The moment God called him "My son," he experienced a special
comfort that he had never felt from anyone; for him, that soothing voice was
warmer, happier, and more peaceful than any parents in the world could make
one feel, he remembered. When he asked God, "How is it that You are my
Father?" God answered, "I, God of all, am the Creator of all people
and the Father of all people. This is why I am your Father, and you are My
son." Having felt the warmth and happiness of
God the Father on earth, he wanted to see the real being of God the Father in
the spiritual world, and made endless prayers and spiritual conditions for
that purpose. He came to realize clearly, however that God cannot appear with
a body, and if He could, He would not be able to appear as the Father of all
people. He said that although he had studied theology for a long time on
earth, he could not really feel that God was his parent. He also said that
although on earth he could not believe it with certainty, his experience in
the spiritual world helped him understood very clearly that God is his
eternal parent. He gave an honest confession saying, My hope has come true. I
am infinitely happy and blessed. May 8, 2000 (2) Catholic Priests and Nuns 1. Life and Confession of a Priest The Catholic worship service is much more
solemn and elaborate than the Protestant service. Hence, the Catholic Church
offers many opportunities to purify and evangelize human hearts through
service ceremonies and sacred events. I would like to introduce a divine
experience of a pure-hearted priest who lived his whole life unmarried in
such an environment purely for the sake of the Lord. He said that he had
chosen the religious road under heavy religious persecution and contempt from
his family. He suffered in heart from his childhood and decided upon the way
of religion in an urgent and acute spiritual situation. Thereafter he had no
more interest in secular affairs and single-mindedly followed the spiritual
path. He was all alone not only during his days as a novitiate, but also all
throughout his holy mission. He was not without family members, and yet none
of them cared for him or visited him. His parents and siblings had
complicated relationships. His holy mission meant his living together and sharing
joy and sorrow only with the Lord. During his clerical mission, he had a
radically unexpected experience. Spiritual discipline requires that you limit
all your secular connections. One day, however, when he was deep in sleep, a
stunning beauty came to him thoroughly naked and asked to sleep with him.
Shocked, he asked her, "What is going on? Who are you?" In fact,
she was a virgin who was serving a holy mission together with him in the
convent attached to the same church. What must have happened when such a thing
occurred to a young man and woman? There, they sinned before God, and after
this they went their own ways. He tried to give up the path of the clergy. He
struggled vehemently over the question of God's purpose in creating human
beings and how much human beings must discipline
themselves spiritually. His mind and body became covered with scars, and his
frustration, despair, and feelings of nothingness drove him to the verge of
death. But it was in this misery that he experienced God's love. Feeling
completely ruined, he was alone in a dark room, when suddenly a bright light
emerged and embraced his mind and body. Comfortably wrapped in this blanket
of peace and happiness, he could not tell whether it was real or a dream.
From that light, a kind voice came, which said, "Jehovah God loves you.
Hence, just as Jehovah God loves you, so should you love all humanity. I gave Eve to Adam as his spouse because it was
not good to behold him alone. You think that you are all by yourself, but you
are not alone. Jehovah God will always be with you and love you." He
spiritually renewed himself in that dreamlike happiness and cultivated his
mind and body, thereby becoming a new person; now, he experienced that God's
love could completely wash away his pain and beyond that the suffering and
wounds of all humankind. Thereafter, always remembering God's compassionate
voice, he devoted himself to loving humanity as a clergyman. During his
remaining life he sewed the holy mission, strictly following the regulations
of the monastery, and when he departed the earth and came here to the
spiritual world, he experienced God's eternal and boundless love and the
destined relationship between God and human beings. He also realized that
celibacy is not God's original will. In other words, he came to discern with
certainty that God always rejoices to behold people getting together as
couples and that even God needs to be with people if He is to be happy. God
created Eve as Adam's partner, and wished that they would multiply and fill
the universe. Hence, he wondered why, then, God had
given directions for celibacy. He asked God that question by making many
spiritual conditions, and finally discovered God's will. He firmly realized
that, while God needed a spiritual course of celibate priests and nuns before
the providence was fully accomplished, His original purpose in creating
humans was that Adam and Eve become a couple and multiply children, thereby
establishing an ideal family, society, country, and world. So he sincerely
wished that many spiritual seekers and the papacy truly discerned God's
original purpose. He said emphatically, "The way of the spiritual seeker
is by no means easy; however, such tribulations in our life are not God's
original will." Such was this priest's conclusion. Immediately before the reporter received
this message, she had offered a prayer, whereupon a vision of a man and a
woman embracing each other in the bedroom appeared to her suddenly. So she
started the reporting while wondering what this vision meant. May 9, 2000 2. The Fallacy of Denominational Division
(Catholicism) Protestants and Catholics all started out
centered on God's love and sewing God as the ultimate object of their faith.
Thus, it is based on a serious fallacy that Protestants and Catholics have
split up, each of them having further divided into many denominations and
factions. Their divisions are based on differences in how they see faith,
life, and the universe in light of the words of Jesus. However, do they not
all serve the one and only God, and do their fundamental views not affirm,
rather than deny, the existence of God? From God's point of view, our talk of
Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Presbyterianism, Baptism, etc.
is simply silly. This division between religious denominations is outrageous
to God, as He sees all humanity identically as His children. Here, I would
like to introduce the opinion of another priest. He researched the reality of
sectarian division, and raised many theological questions on many levels
about this problem. Besides Protestantism and Catholicism,
there are myriads of other religions. Are the Gods they serve different from
one another, or do they all represent one and the same God? Why do human
beings seek God and yearn for and wonder about the other world? What is the
nature of God and the original human nature, and how do these natures differ?
He anguished over these issues for long time. Every country has an array of different
religions, and yet they all ultimately pursue goodness and the formation of
one human community. This suggests that religion is essential and
indispensable for human life, and we can never make light of the impact it
has on our life. Then, where does religious desire come from, and why is it
that we never manage to leave our religiosity behind? Where does human
religiosity come from? Why do we yearn for and seek to lean on God? If people
do not rely on absolute God, they still try to rely on some being: bowing
down, for instance, before the sea, a river, or a tree and try to lay the
burdens of their lives at the foot of some god. Where does this kind of
nature come from? Notwithstanding our constant desire to be
perfect, why is it that we cannot but live as an imperfect creature? Why is
it that we cannot determine the matters concerning our life and death? And
why do most people live each day in anxiety and insecurity about an uncertain
tomorrow? These were the questions that troubled
this priest. According to him, he took the path of religion because he felt
that he could not live normally and have a family
while anguishing over these questions. Even throughout his lifelong religious
life, however, he still could not find a fundamental solution to the problems
of human reality. "How can we say that God exists, when we cannot even
see Him or talk to Him comfortably?" he asked. Although he had many
doubts about life during his religious pursuit, he could not abandon
religion. This was his life on earth. Although he concluded his earthly life
through religion and came to the spiritual world, his doubts still lingered.
What he has realized clearly here, however, is that in the spiritual world,
the different religions may serve their own founder, but the Gods they used
to serve on earth are nowhere to be seen - their only object of faith is the
one God. One day, someone was giving a lecture to a
large crowd. The lecturer spoke passionately, saying, "There is no God
for us, but only we ourselves." All of a sudden,
however, the whole area turned dark, and thunder and lightning struck,
together with a whirlwind. After a while, the darkness left, and a brilliant
light appeared and a thundering voice could be heard, which said, "I,
Jehovah, am the Creator of all humankind. With no beginning or end, there is
only one Jehovah." All the people there were trembling, and the
impassioned lecturer had already disappeared. What he realized through this experience
was that, although there are many different religions and denominations,
their only differences are in their method of serving God, and there is for
all of us only one God, Jehovah, the God of all people. There, finally, he
could completely put behind him the doubts he had had all his life and start
concentrating only on sewing God. He said that he wanted to confidently
convey to all the religious seekers wondering and agonizing like him that
there is only one ultimate object of our faith. He claimed that the
denominational divisions on earth have sprung from wrong human thinking, and
that if all humanity served the one God only, sectarian schisms would not
occur. In conclusion, he stressed that God can rest easy only when the
multifarious religions become unified, and that the peace of humankind will
be realized only when we serve no one but the one God. May 11, 2000 3. Confession of a Nun Each of us is a vessel to be prepared and
offered to God during our lives. We are born with a portion, whether it is
large or small, which we must offer God according to our unique characteristics.
The form given to each individual at birth is an object of God's joy, for
already at the time of our birth, we are given our portion to offer to God,
and this is the form God created. Now, I would like to introduce the life of
a nun who walked a spiritual path all throughout her life and served God with
all her mind and body. She was born to Catholic parents. Her
father firmly pledged to the Holy Mother that his daughter would follow the
spiritual path all her life from the moment of her birth. The rest of her
family members, however, vehemently opposed her taking the spiritual path.
Hence, it was amidst a serious family struggle that she started her life as a
nun, and after she became a nun her parents and relatives together opposed
her being a nun. They often visited her convent and attempted to persuade her
to give up her spiritual pursuit and return to a normal life. Hence, her
spiritual path was very turbulent. After a long struggle in heart, she
finally decided to leave the convent and return to her family. On that very
day, however, the Holy Mother appeared to her and said to her with tears,
"Sister! Have you forgotten the promise you made with me? When I made
this promise with you, I asked God to take care of you for your whole life. No
matter how hard the path may be, it must be walked by someone." Hence,
she told all her family members and relatives about the appearance of the
Holy Mother and pleaded with them, saying. This is the will of God. so please do not try to stop me from going this way."
She then continued her serious religious life. Although her family and relatives were
deeply pained to see her take the rugged path of serving God, they promised
no longer to block her way. Unlike other people, she had a special grace and
mission given directly by God. Whenever she prayed to God, His Holy Spirit
and light, and the Holy Mother's light of grace came to her, and God and the
Holy Mother stressed the importance of her mission. Before many fellow believers, she started
doing various miracles and signs through healing by the grace of the new
word. Steeped in Catholic doctrine, however, those believers stubbornly
refused to accept the grace of the new word and her work of healing, thereby
causing her many struggles. The Holy Mother wanted her to personally cure the
pain of her fellow believers, and yet Catholic law did not accept the work of
the Holy Spirit through her. This forced her to move to another convent, and
her work of the new word and healing was pushed into the background. She then
embarked on a very arduous life of witnessing. In her old age, she left the
convent and wondered around, spreading the work of healing and the Holy
Mother's new word of truth, until she concluded her earthly life and came
here to the spiritual world. Here, while living in deep love of God and
the Holy Mother, she seriously repented for not having been able to convey
the new truth of God correctly to many fellow believers. She surely
experienced and ascertained that the love of God and the Holy Mother is truly
great and can transcend anything in heaven and earth. In the life of faith,
the law exists for completing our love and not for binding us, and the
restrictions of the law are not the original will of God. Now all religious
seekers must stop differentiating themselves as a Catholic, Protestant, or
member of some other denomination, embrace one another, and become one by
respecting the uniqueness of different teachings, thereby returning to the
original faith transcending religious faction. Acknowledging that each
religion shares the common root of goodness, they should uphold one truth
centering on God as the only standard of good and evil. We should
fundamentally change our attitude of faith, realizing that all people are
brothers and sisters in God's love. We have God as the only object of our
faith, and we should think deeply about how we can serve and attend God when
we come to live in the eternal world. This is what she wanted to convey
clearly. Here, she always lives humbly in
accordance with the directions of the Holy Mother and sometimes serves Jesus.
She always tries not to deviate from her position as a nun. To me, her attitude is so beautiful; what
is more important, however is that she was bold
enough to jump into the lives of her fellow believers. I earnestly hope that
through her upright attitude of faith, many Protestants and Catholics can
strengthen the basic spirit of faith. May 15, 2000 4. The World Where the Mind and Body
Become One In our life on earth, the problem of
clothes, food, and shelter is important, and yet it is just for the growth of
our body. You should deeply ponder what you can do for the sake of the
maturation of your eternal spirit self. Actually, is not our earthly life but
a grandiose dream of spring? We absolutely cannot ignore the matters of our
spirit self, just because we cannot see it. Here, I would like to introduce
the life of a nun who seriously concerned herself with and anguished over the
maturation of her spirit self all through her life of faith. In her life, she could not be freed from
agony over the problem of the physical self and the spirit self, because she
realized that following bodily demands troubled the mind, whereas going with
the mind distressed the body. Unable to resolve this problem, she took the
path of religious pursuit. However, even through her religious life, she
could not find the answer, which made her struggle and wonder whether she
should go back to the world. She could not understand why God created
human beings in such a wretched shape. One day, however she felt the warmth
of God during her prayer and from heaven heard a solemn voice saying, "I
am Jehovah, who is your Parent and at the same time the Parent of all
humankind. Now you are living in a very narrow and momentary world, but in
your future there is a world where you can live in happiness and abundance.
But you do not come to this world with your body." During this time the
nun was trembling. Thereafter she stopped worrying about
physical things, and with the understanding that earthly life is for maturing
the spirit self, she started on a religious life in order to prepare her
inner being to live in the eternal world. Although she always had to struggle
over her failure to unite her mind and body, she took God's instruction to
heart and devotedly carried out her spiritual self cultivation. No matter how
much she tried on earth, however, she could not easily bring together her
mind and body or develop her spirituality to maturity. According to her, however, when she came
here to the spiritual world, she experienced God's love, in which she could
resolve the problems that had troubled her on earth. She asserts that since
God's love is omnipresent and omnipotent, it can solve all human problems.
For instance, she has seen that wherever God goes, all the trees and grasses
around Him make all kinds of efforts to bring Him joy according to their
unique characteristics and forms, and all the people around Him looked warm,
humble, peaceful, and happy, although there was no one to give them commands or to intervene in their life. All their
attitudes were rooted in God's love, and like a magnificent painting, their
minds and bodies were completely united. She understood that the driving
force for the unity of our mind and body is God's eternal love alone, which
He gave us at the time of our creation. The disunity of our minds and bodies is a
distortion of the original form of the human being. Therefore, she realized
that a life of faith and spiritual cultivation are absolutely necessary for
us to regain the original image. What she has discovered while observing many
things here is that human beings deviated from the original image during the
process of their growth. She has clearly understood that God's
infinite love is the power to overcome every hurdle and resolve every
problem. We should all fully prepare for the next life in order to live there
eternally in God's bosom of love. We must make efforts to nurture our inner
being while we have our bodies. This was the conclusion of the nun. May 17, 2000 |