PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME FILIAL CHILDREN
WHO COMFORT YOU, FATHER
Today even if we see something evil
we don't sense anything, and
today with hearts that are unrighteous and incomplete
and frozen by suffering while facing the will of heavenly fortune,
we are unable to feel our responsibility.
We have been people
who have not experienced heartbreak penetrated by sorrow
and have not had minds to cast aside the enemy,
and we have been people
who have not been able to bring results in battle,
or to believe in the Almighty God.
We did not know
the filial devotion of Jesus Christ in relation to heaven.
Your will to raise up Jesus Christ and to be proud of him
has passed through history through the disciples
and connected to us today.
Please let us know that
you are hoping that your Will shall bear fruit through us.
And please allow us to realize
that today, in addition to the joy of having received life,
we also have a central responsibility
which can be welcomed by myriads of saints.
Now please allow us to become sacrifices
to resolve the enmity of heaven and earth,
of all things of creation,
and of Jesus Christ.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become children with filial hearts
who devote ourselves heart and soul.
Father!
Please allow us to realize that
today it is each one of us and all of us together
who have the responsibility
to resolve the grief of heaven, and
we are in a situation where it is through ourselves
that we must bring to an end the battle
to resolve the enmity of heaven.
Since we have realized this,
please allow us to have
minds which seek to accomplish more than anyone else,
minds which are able to be grateful to you alone, Father.
Please allow us to be grateful even if we are carrying a cross, and
please don't allow us to become unmanly fellows in front of you, Father,
even if we fight with billions of satans.
Please lead us to become children
who can say, "Father, I'm here, so don't worry,"
even if we are carrying a cross and standing in a difficult position.
We earnestly hope that you will allow us to become children
who are able to offer comfort to our Father
who is in sorrow over seeing his children in difficult situations.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(May 16, 1956)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME CHILDREN
WHO COMPLETELY FULFILL OUR RESPONSIBILITY
Father!
Since a rugged path still remains before us,
we earnestly hope and desire that you will personally hold us and
allow us the strength
to be able to remain to the end,
even if we go over all the paths of death.
Please embrace these foolish children
who are only gazing up at you,
and please allow us the courage to be able to push forward along this way
to realize the will of heaven alone.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will help us to be able to go forward as heros of heaven
and as the children of heaven who have been called.
Please help us not to be found lacking
while fulfilling the mission we are shouldering
as believers who have the responsibility
of awakening all your sleeping children
and guiding them to you.
And we earnestly hope and desire that
you will help us to become your children
who can be even higher than any believers of the past.
Please help us to become children
who walk the proper way responding to your grasp, and
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will help us not to become children
who are the objects of Satan's derision.
Please help us not to be foolish people
who calculate heavenly morality centered on ourselves.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will help us to become children
who can exalt your grace on this earth
and reveal your glory alone.
Even now how many children are there
who call out to you, Father,
and raise up a hidden altar
yearning to find the way of your Will?
Since we also have the mission
to find these people,
oh Father,
please do not let us be found lacking
when fulfilling that kind of mission.
Father, please call and gather together
all your children, and
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow the day to come quickly
when we can exalt your great will of glory.
Since we have the mission
to find and bring before you
the four billion people of humankind who are sleeping,
oh Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will help us become children
who are able to exalt your glory and joy
high on the earth
by letting flames of life rise up everywhere we go
and by bringing about the work of resurrection
when we go out confidently
with the Word you have given us,
Please allow us to believe clearly
that it is our responsibility
to relieve the lamentations of Christ,
who has been appealing to you for our sakes, and
to relieve the earnest heart of Christ,
who has been working for the sake of the people of this earth
for thousands of years until today.
Please do not allow us to discard the standard of heaven
before having fulfilled completely the responsibility
which humankind must fulfill, and
please allow us to become children
to whom only heaven alone can relate.
Please help us not to become children
who drop back onto the earth
the mission we have already shouldered, and
by establishing us as your children of ability,
as your beloved children
who can reveal your glory to the end,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will help us not to leave behind any unresolved grief.
Father,
please carry out your work and personally embrace your children
who are raising up a lonely altar in the midst of a difficult environment and
are crying out to and appealing to you.
And
we earnestly hope that you will allow us
to become heaven's children
who are able to receive your extraordinary will and go forth.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(May 23, 1956)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME CHILDREN
WHO RESOLVE YOUR HEART OF ENMITY, FATHER
Father of love!
We have come to know that you lament
that there is no person to bring to a conclusion
the history of struggle which remains as the enmity of heaven.
Humankind must pull out the original root of the fall
which was planted because of humankind, but
since in spite of passing through a long history,
humankind still has not been able
to pull out that original root of sin,
Father,
please allow us to be able to pull it out.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us all
to be filled with your heart and
to become one with it.
Please allow us to resemble
your frustrated mind, and
please allow us to have once again
the hope that you are hoping for.
Please allow us to become brave people
who appear representing heaven,
who are able to fight with the billions of enemy satans
and take responsibility for the remaining history of enmity,
and please allow us to become brave people
who are able to go forth representing the earth.
On the remaining field of battle,
please allow each of us to be able
to take responsibility and to go forth for your will
until we realize the garden of joy
where we are able to share with each other
the heart of love of our eternal father.
We earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become your dauntless sons and daughters
who are able to fight with Satan,
each one of us representing your entire will.
Please allow our minds and bodies
to experience and feel keenly the grace
of your joy,
and please carry out your work of re-creation
centered on us.
And
we earnestly hope and pray,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become children
who are able to return glory to you
and experience and feel your love keenly
due to having taken hold of the root of sin
and fighting and winning over it.
Now pouring out the fire of your holy spirit
like water which is pouring down,
please act to let your chosen children
gather into one, and be able to face and fight against
this dark world,
and we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters
who go forth and conquer all evil
representing your heart of the enmity of 6,000 years.
Now on the remaining field of battle,
please do not allow us to become people
who are indebted to you, Father, and
please allow us to be able to be equal to
the grace of eternal victory.
We earnestly ask you to allow us
to be able to establish your will and go forth
with the hearts of indomitable heros
until the ideal garden is built
which can reveal your heart of blessing on the earth.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(October 7, 1956)
PLEASE LET US BECOME HEARTISTIC SONS AND DAUGHTERS
WHO ARE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE
Beloved Father!
Please let those of us who are here
become heartistic sons and daughters
who are able to hear the heart-rending appeal
shouted out by Abel.
And
through our senses
and through our blood,
please let us relieve the heart of Christ
which was pierced by enmity
over not having been able to say all he had to say to the people,
when, representing the blood of Abel,
he offered himself as a sacrifice of blood
on the mount of Golgotha.
We thought that the footsteps
of the many saints and sages
who have come and gone in the course of history
were their footsteps alone, but
now finally we have realized today that those footsteps
are the very footsteps we also must take today.
There are many people on earth, but
since you have come to us who are so unworthy,
please guide us to become sons and daughters
who know your situation, oh Father,
as you hope we will resolve the grief of 6,000 years for you.
On this earth there are many distinguished people,
and there are many outstanding people,
and there are also many people of ability,
but you have come to us, even though we are so inadequate.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will guide us to become sons and daughters
who are able to experience and feel keenly your forlorn situation
as you ask us to understand the situation of heaven.
Just as long ago Joshua was strong and of good courage,
today representing the people,
we must be strong and of good courage, and
representing the world,
we must be strong and of good courage, and
representing the earth,
we must be strong and of good courage.
Therefore, Father,
please be with our inadequate selves.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will lead us
to be able to indemnify and go beyond
all the sufferings of history
through our own selves.
From among the Christians of the world,
please allow there to appear quickly
many people who are strong and of good courage
like Joshua and Caleb
who said they would have to go into the promised land of Canaan
even if they died over and over again.
We earnestly hope that you will lead us
to be able to quickly greet a day of glory
when we can harmonize with you, Father,
and feel the throb of your life,
the throb of life of resurrection
through hearts based on heavenly morality.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(June 23, 1957)
PLEASE LET US FULFILL OUR RESPONSIBILITY COMPLETELY
FROM A BRIDE-LIKE POSITION
Father!
Please bear with
our having been disloyal and unfilial people
who have not known your heart,
which is worried about our lonely selves, but
rather have appealed to you
to resolve our frustrations up until now.
Now that we have realized how pathetic
and frustrated the heart of heaven is,
please let us understand that
we dare not tell you
about our own situations.
Father!
Since that alone is not sufficient,
please allow us to be able to resolve
your worries and
your concerns
through our own selves today,
and we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who can offer everything we have
to you.
Since today
we are attempting to establish
valuable conditions for the sake of heaven
in the realm of our real daily lives,
Father,
please be with us.
In establishing heavenly conditions with the value of the whole,
we have been showing ourselves to be unworthy
by not being able to be happy
about our sacrifices, but
since from now on
we will become sons and daughters
who have minds which can enjoy it
even if we are used for you without limit,
Father,
please allow that.
Since we know that even Satan can not block our footsteps,
we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will help our minds not to change
today or tomorrow.
Father,
if we
seek to become the brides of Jesus who is the groom,
please allow us to realize that
we are in a position such that
if the groom is worried, we too must be worried, and
if the groom fights, we too must fight together, and
whether we live or die, we must move together with the groom.
Please establish us in the position of brides
who experience and feel keenly
the joy of the groom who,
having finished the course of the battle,
sings of your glory in the grace of liberation.
In that way
everything that has been lost will be found, and
we earnestly ask that you will allow
a day
when we are able to sing praises to your glory with joy
to appear quickly
in the courses of our lives,
in our daily lives,
and in our hearts.
We have humbly prayed all these thing in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(October 4, 1957)
PLEASE LET US BECOME TRUE CHILDREN
WHO REPRESENT THE COSMOS
Father of love!
I had thought that Jesus came to the earth
for the sake of finding me alone, but
that was not all;
I had thought that he came for the sake of my family, but
that was not all, and
I had thought that he came for the sake of the chosen people of Israel, but
that was not all.
He also was not a person who came for the sake of any one denomination.
We have come to understand that
at the same time that Jesus was the hope of the created world,
he came representing its entire value.
Father,
what kinds of minds do we have today
in relation to Jesus
who had the mission to restore everything
like that?
Please do not allow any of us to become a person
who says, "I will die clinging to my family."
Please do not allow any of us to become a person
who says, "I will die clinging to
my people,
my nation,
my world."
We earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become people
who are able to live risking our lives for
the problem of the life and death of the cosmos,
that is to say,
even if I live, I represent heaven and earth, and
even if I die, I die representing heaven and earth.
Today if there remain
the sounds of the shouts of lamentation among the things of creation
because the will Jesus had to restore was not accomplished,
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become true sons and daughters
who are able to give Jesus and you rest
by letting us eliminate that, and
please let us be able to form an eternal, destined relationship with you
and even penetrate into your heart.
And
please work together with us,
Father,
in order to resolve all historical enmity and
to be able to receive the comfort of that resolution,
and please allow us to be able to go forward together with you.
Earnestly hoping that
you will allow us to become true filial sons and filial daughters
who are able to forget everything
and praise heaven,
we have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 23, 1958)
PLEASE LET US BECOME CHILDREN
WHO ARE ABLE TO COMFORT YOU, FATHER
Father!
If we have life,
please do not allow the driving force of that life
to limit itself to my one being, and
if we have the power of the word,
please do not allow the word to remain
in our own individual selves.
And furthermore, we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become people
who can make the power of the word and life
go beyond the people and
move heaven and earth by swaying the world.
We who have gone forth seeking you now
did not know that
you are not just a father of glory
as we had thought; rather,
you are going through crises of crucifixion.
Today
there are many people who are waiting for the Lord of glory, but
since there are no people who have a true will
to follow the Lord of suffering,
Father,
please bear with these pitiful human beings.
Father!
Now we are those
who must go over the peak of sacrifice, but
when we realize that
you have struggled indescribably before us
in order to find us,
we come to feel that we can not help but
go this way whether we want to or not.
Since we know that today we have
the entire mission of having to indemnify
all the historical debts which remain,
if we are unworthy,
please eliminate that, and
please allow us
to be able to be capable of carrying out the mission given to us.
For the sake of this people,
and for the sake of the world,
and for the sake of heaven and earth, please allow us
to be able to establish this people first before you, and
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who can do that and much more.
We, who hear the sounds of the screams of sin
which are left from the course of the 6,000-year history,
know that we are standing in a position
of having to break through from now on as new ancestors of goodness
by going through the positions of Adam and Eve.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will establish us as heavenly workers
who build a new world
stepping over all of the present realities.
Until now we sought you, our father, who comforted us, and
we sought you in order to be comforted, but
now please allow us to become people
who represent you, the father who is comforting us, and
attend the Lord instead.
And
we earnestly hoping that you will guide those of us
who have sought to be capable of carrying out this mission
so that all our power will be able to remain
until that hope in our minds is realized.
We have prayed in the name of our beloved Lord. Amen.
(May 4, 1958)
PLEASE LET US FIND THE REST
THAT COMES FROM YOUR LOVE, FATHER
Father!
Many people do not know the flow of history, but
we know that
you have been personally directing
the Will of the providence.
Today please allow your sons and daughters
who are here in this place to critique on their own
the kind of situation they are in now.
Is there anyone who is living
for the sake of finding his or her body,
for the sake of finding rest for his or her body?
Is there anyone living
only for the sake of finding rest for his or her mind?
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will now allow us to become sons and daughters
who are able to find the rest
that comes from your love.
We have come to realize that this is
the inevitable course of restoration humankind must go.
Because humankind lost that due to the fall,
please allow us to stand up imposingly before human history
which has groped to find faith,
substantial beings, the Word, and love,
and we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who are able to go forth unblamable
with heavenly hearts,
heavenly love, and
heavenly hope
before all the things of creation on this earth.
Father!
Earnestly requesting
that you will eternally embrace our minds and bodies
with eternal life,
we have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(December 14, 1958)
PLEASE LET US BECOME CHILDREN WHO RESPECT YOUR COUNSEL
We know that it was you who blessed this chosen group
and it is you who will make them succeed.
We know that the origin of our mind is goodness, and
that we move through goodness, and
we know that
the purpose of goodness,
the historical purpose, and
the providential purpose
all become one centered on you, Father.
Accordingly, please allow the ideological apex
which we are longing for
to bear fruit through spirits of goodness, and
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow this time to become one
when we establish ourselves as people who go forward steadily
in order to become this ideology itself.
Please allow us to take a good look at
the direction our minds are heading, and
our bodies are heading.
Now please allow our minds to be able to devote
their entire energies to longing for you and to admiring goodness.
And please allow our bodies
to be able to struggle in order to hold on to goodness and
to thirstingly, urgently fold our hands and
call out to you, Father.
Since we know that the history of 6,000 years is a history
through which we have held on to you and appealed to you, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow this to become a moment
when we are able to reveal ourselves honestly and bow down before you,
and report to you truthfully about all our situations,
and we can receive the counsel of your bidding.
Since it was you
who drove us out along the way others said no to, and
it was you who guided us
along the way that was so difficult to go,
please take responsibility for this way, Father.
We have not moved
in accordance with any kind of human mind, and
we have not been pulled along
by any kind of human situation, and
since we have come to this point led by the power of the mind and
could not help coming whether we wanted to or not,
please lead us not to be lazy.
Since we do not know your words
of counsel which urge us on,
please give us hour by hour the stimulation of your power
to realize your word and
to head out in the direction of that word.
And
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will not let any person fall behind
on the course going towards you at long last.
Please allow us to place everything we have
before you now, Father, and
please do not allow your altar to be defiled
because of us, and
we earnestly hope that you will allow this to become a time of
our bowing down to make an offering to you
with complete sincerity.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(January 18, 1959)
PLEASE LET US MOVE ONLY AS YOURS
Please do not allow us to become
people who think that our selves
belong to our selves.
Our minds are not ours, and
and our lives which are in motion are not ours;
and as the desires we are longing for are not ours
please do not allow us to relate to heaven with minds
which consider things centered on ourselves.
Since we began as yours,
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father
that you will allow this to become a time when
we are able to move only as yours.
Since we know that
our minds must become yours, and
our bodies also must become yours, and
our ideologies and opinions must become yours,
please do not tolerate
anything that is not yours.
If there are elements of evil
which you do not want
in our minds and bodies, please eliminate them, and
we earnestly hope and desire,
oh Father,
that you will allow this to become a time
which moves as yours alone
through your having eliminated all the ideologies and opinions
that are not yours.
We know that
uncountable Satans are stalking our minds and our bodies.
If the bitter root of sin,
which you can not tolerate, remains,
oh Father!
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will bring about heavenly acts
that will give us the ability to subjugate our minds before you,
and that you will appear and bring about heavenly acts of re-creation
through the authority of your power.
We know the fact that
when heaven moves,
the earth can not help but move, and
when the earth faces heaven and requests something,
heaven can not help but accomplish it for the earth.
Today are there sons and daughters of heaven
who are struggling with sincere minds and true hearts
in order to grasp heaven as their own?
Is there any person who has lived his or her entire life
thinking of all of heaven's situations as his or her own situations,
thinking of heaven's work as his or her own work,
thinking of the ideas of heaven as his or her own ideas, and
struggled while seeking to grasp this,
been treated contemptuously while seeking to grasp this and
been driven out while seeking to grasp this?
If we have not been in that kind of position,
please allow us
to be able to report truthfully that we are criminals
who can not be tolerated by heaven.
Now we have realized that heaven exists, and
we have realized who our heavenly father is.
Since we know that there remains the necessary condition
that we must form a certain kind of destined relationship
between you and us,
Father,
today please allow us
to form a destined relationship with you, our heavenly Father,
through this kind of heart, and
to feel your anguish as our anguish, and
your deep regret and sorrow as our deep regret and sorrow.
Please allow there to appear before this people,
and please allow there to appear in this land
a heavenly march which goes forth to fight a fierce battle against Satan.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to be able
to drive out from the earth
the enemy satans who have faced heaven and accused it for 6,000 years,
in order to resolve your grief, and
to build as soon as possible
the ideal garden you have sought.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 15, 1959)
PLEASE LET US LEAD THE WAY IN THE RESOLUTION
OF HISTORICAL GRIEF
You are the father of hosts;
you are the Lord of the entire universe, and
you were the central figure who had all authority under heaven, but
because of the mistake of your son and daughter,
you are facing a miserable situation like this.
Therefore, please allow us to understand
your heart at this time.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will not allow us to become weak
like defeated people
as we look up at the peak of enmity of the providence which remains.
Oh, Father of compassion!
Oh, Father of love!
If your promised Will
is alive in our hearts,
please protect us.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become loving sons and daughters
who build up an altar of heart
while kneeling down wailing before you.
When we have come before you, Father,
we have been able to experience and feel keenly the lonely heart of Jesus
who had determined to go forward not caring about
all the difficulties.
Now since the time has come to speak proudly about the hope
that we, who have gone out with determination, are embracing,
please let us stand on the side of heaven and lead the way,
and please let us leave behind
what heaven wants to leave behind.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will help this true group of people
be able to comfort you and fight for you, Father,
adding our hearts together.
Since a trend towards the historical turning point
has appeared before us today,
please let us become a group of people
which resolves the grief of history.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who are able to feel we are inadequate
in relation to the Will you have established, and
are able to represent the heart of Moses
who sought to build an altar for you
and believe in you even in difficult circumstances.
What we are going through
can not even be compared with
your worry
your suffering, and
your toil.
Please allow us to become people
who are able to see the circumstances you went through
as you walked the course of unending troubles, and
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to become people
who are able to see your majesty
as you walked the unending course of suffering.
Please let us be able to go beyond all
the unjust accusations we are encountering,
all the criticism we are receiving, and
all the persecution we are encountering today.
Please guide us to be able to
go forward for you, Father, without getting bogged down
no matter what kind of position we are in.
We earnestly hope that you will enlighten us
to know deeply about all these things,
and please counsel us through your heart
which is concerned for us, and
earnestly hoping that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who do not mind all these things,
we have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 29, 1959)
PLEASE COMMAND US THROUGH THE ORIGINAL HEART
Father!
Please allow our minds and bodies
to be permeated by your heart.
Please let us become able to feel
that we are being pulled into your heart
which is permeating our original minds.
In our minds and bodies, please allow hearts to blossom
which are moved and can go forth running to you
who are joyful and embrace you.
We have realized that you appear faintly
in the midst of dimness and
you do not move
until we open our hearts.
Even though our minds may have become dirty
since our true hearts are still heading only towards you,
Father,
please come to us through these hearts, and
command us through these hearts.
Please allow earnest hearts to well up
which can call you "My Father"
while shedding tears we do not even perceive
having realized that our past lives were disloyal.
We have come to know that
heaven does not hesitate to
protect anyone, and
we have come to understand that
heaven does not hesitate to become the friend of
those who are seeking heaven, and
we have come to know that
heaven enjoys appearing
as the friend of people
who shed tears wailing to heaven, and
as the father
who will live with us eternally.
Father!
We long for your voice
which counseled us quietly and
we long for the sense of the amazing love
with which you embraced us gently.
We long for a moment when we can call you "Father"
through our minds which are like that, and
we want to raise our hands and
exclaim and boast that you are our father.
We thought that you were a father who was far, far away, but
it was a joyful moment when we found that you are in our hearts.
When we said you were far away, you were in our hearts,
and when we were confident that you were in our hearts,
you were the father who had called to us from afar, but
today humanity does not know
how to match this beat.
Please let us repent at this time
for our selves of the past which did not realize
that the place where we thought you had abandoned us
was the place where you were close to us, and
that the place where we thought you were not with us
was the place where you were together with us.
We did not know your mind
which does not want to leave in places of suffering
your sons and daughters
whom you want to call "my beloved son"
and you want to call "my beloved daughter".
We, who don't know your complicated heart,
thought that you, who sent us out on the path of toil,
were a hardhearted and cruel father,
and during that time, there were many times we complained to you
and there were many times we felt bitter.
Since we did not know about the complicated walls
that blocked the way between you and us,
Father,
please bear with the fact that
we have felt bitter,
have rejected you,
have been coldhearted to you, and
have not had faith in you.
We have come to know that
this was because of the aspect of the sin
committed by our ancestors due to the fall, and
this was because saints and sages died
leaving behind stains of the blood of enmity in human history.
Today is the level of our minds in a high place?
Please burn away those minds by fire.
Are we waiting impatiently
to put ourselves and our authority forward
and to appear in your place?
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who, realizing that you are in a miserable position,
are able to call you "Father",
and are able to smote our shameful breasts
in front of your majesty.
Father!
Now as we come to realize that there remain times of suffering
which will continue endlessly along the remaining way as well,
we can not help but report our disloyalty of today to you
with our heads bowed.
It is my desire that you please allow
this one being to carry the sorrow of history,
and please allow heaven
to tread upon and go over all the suffering remaining,
having taken this being as a sacrifice.
I long for the moment when
you can rest and cast aside all lamentations, Father,
and we can have a moment of joy embracing each other
when I can call you my father, and
you can call me your son.
As long as we are living on this earth
no matter how miserable we are,
no matter how resolved we are,
or how much we sacrifice,
please allow us to become your sons and daughters
who are able to establish at least
sincere hearts of unbending loyalty
on this earth and then disappear.
Since we have resolved to go that kind of path,
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that you will
drive us out and lead us
until we don't mind those things.
We earnestly request,
Father,
that this will become a time
when we are able to pledge and determine ourselves
with new minds and bodies.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 29, 1959)
PLEASE LET THIS BECOME A PATH OF FAITH
WHERE WE ATTEND OUR SORROWFUL FATHER
Father,
you have rejoiced in revealing
yourself in silence, and
you have not minded revealing yourself
in the midst of difficulties.
When we realize again that historically it was you, Father,
who fought personally on our side with us on the battlefield and
who was together with us at the point of despair,
and when we think that it was you, Father,
who was always with us, and
who always fought on our side with us, and
who always longed to live together with us,
please let us repent for
our course of faith of the past in which we rejoiced
in rejecting and excluding the earth
even while living on the earth.
Our Father whom we joyfully attended as being far above the earth
was a father of glory, but
we have come to know that our Father who appeared on the earth
is miserable, and
worn out, and lonely.
And furthermore, we learned and came to know
that you have come to us and related to us in that way
through the course of history.
Now we
should not rejoice in and
attend our Father who has appeared in glory; rather
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to stand in a position of glory
of being able to rejoice in and attend our father
who has been wounded on the earth and
has been afflicted with difficulties,
and who has struggled to find a true son.
If we seek to attend you from that kind of position
we know that we will first have to go a path of tears;
we will have to walk a path of thorns, and
we will have to go beyond the path of the suffering of the cross.
We know it is only in that way that
we can know the fact that you exist.
We can not help but think that
this kind of lonely course of faith is remaining
for us.
Heaven has warned us
that now is the time to wake up from sleep.
Heaven warned us that it is the time that
we should hold up a bright light in this dark night, but
are our minds immersed in darkness?
Are our bodies bound by the chains of death?
Please lead us to cut and cast these aside
in order to be able to run towards heaven,
to be able to fight in the place of heaven, and
to be able to take responsibility in place of heaven.
We know that it will not do unless we become sons and daughters
who by doing that can call you "Father", and
who long for our father to come;
therefore, if there are people
who are inadequate to stand before the will,
Father,
at this time please encourage them.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will
let us know that the time and the age are at hand, and
not let us become people who are judged,
or swept away by the shadow of death, and
that you will let us become sons and daughters
who know how to run forward towards the garden of freedom
seeking your bosom, led by the call of life,
even if we have the grief of our bodies being ripped apart and
even if we face the grief of death.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.
Amen (April 19, 1959)
PLEASE LET US SEARCH FOR YOUR COURSE OF SUFFERING
We know that
the place where you dwell, Father,
is the world of infinite patience, and
it is a place of infinite toil.
We, who know your heart and Will
which dealt with all the sins committed until now
since our ancestors,
can not help but bow our heads
with ashamed hearts
before our father who has walked a path of so much endurance
and a path of so much toil
in order to find a being of the original creation.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to be able to
broaden our minds at this time and
bowing down our bodies, attend you in our minds and
hold on to you with our bodies, oh Father,
who has struggled in order to hold on to humankind,
who has gone forward fighting together on the side of our ancestors, and
who has endured together with our ancestors,
during the long ages as though they were a day.
We have come to know that among the many people
who are living on the earth,
while there are many people who avoid the path of toil,
there are extremely few people
who seek and go forth on the path of toil
knowing your situation
in order to have your heart in their minds and bodies,
When we come to realize that there are very few
people who offer loyalty for your sake,
who prepare an altar for you
becoming sacrifices for your sake, or
who reveal your enduring heart
on the earth,
we come to realize that you are terribly miserable, Father.
We can not help but feel that
you are a father who toils and worries
about humankind, and
even while loving humankind,
you are lamenting.
Oh, my Father!
Now please let the day come soon
when you can convey that your situation is like that
to humankind who are living on the earth.
We are earnestly looking forward to
your situation which is like that
being able to be sink deep into
the hearts of each and every person.
Father!
On this day,
on this holy day
there are many people who are looking forward to receiving blessings
bowing their heads and kneeling down to you, but
please let us become people who know that
blessings belong to heaven and
humankind must take responsibility for
the course of toil, suffering and endurance.
If we have joy,
please let us return it to you as yours, Father,
and if we have hearts of happiness and gratitude,
please let us return them to you as yours also, and
we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become
your sons and daughters who take charge of
your sorrowful course filled with sorrow and enmity
as though it were our own.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(May 24, 1959)
PLEASE LET US BE ABLE TO SING OF YOUR LIBERATION
Father!
If we
recollect your sorrowful historical course,
we can not suppress our fearful minds, and
each time we relate to the majesty of our Father
who has toiled so hard,
we can not suppress our awe-stricken minds.
Now please establish these people as sons and daughters
who are able to stop and
take over your toil
by offering their minds and bodies as sacrifices.
You
have eagerly awaited the coming of a day of victory
when we can sing of liberation from a position of joy
which you are able to enjoy, but
it is not you who is to realize that Will of liberation;
we know the fact that it will not do unless it is done by
us, human beings who are so disloyal
and struggling in the realm of death.
Please bear with humankind
who are in an important position like this, but
who are languishing along the course of death
without knowing their own value as human beings.
Please awaken in us earnest minds
which are able to sing praises of your heart of glory
by holding up a new standard for the restoration of the original heart
in ourselves now.
Please let us have
original internal characters and original external forms, and
please let us appear as true sons and daughters
and be able to sing of
your liberation, Father.
We know that you know the fact that
this has been our hope for thousands of years.
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will lead those of us
who know that there will be a day of victory
to a position of the level of victory, and that
you will lead us to be able to become sacrifices
in front of the great will
that you want to give us responsibility for.
Father!
Please allow us to be living temples
binding together our inadequate devotion.
Since we know the fact that
you are notifying us that it will not do
unless each of us individually
becomes a sacrifice for the victory,
please eliminate
everything which is not proper to you, and
Father,
please raise up a new authority of re-creation
by reaching out with your almighty hand.
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will have the internal character
and you will have the external form of re-creation
which is able to eliminate everything which is not yours.
And now, my Father!
Please awaken this people which is sleeping, and
by taking humankind, who are wandering in dire misery,
in your hands,
and gathering them together in one place,
please lead them
into your original garden,
into the garden of goodness which is your ideal.
No matter what kind of persecution or misfortune
humankind must go through,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will quickly lead humankind
into the midst of the garden you desire.
Father!
Since we know that humankind has a responsibility
which must be fulfilled in order to do that,
oh Father,
please command your beloved sons and daughters.
If they have the responsibility to have
to go out and find the remaining lands of sin
and the remaining people,
we earnestly hope and desire that you will
please raise them up and command them, and
please allow them to be commanded and sent
to the place that you desire
as ardent laborers,
as chosen warriors of heaven
who are able to build the garden of victory.
We have prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(June 28, 1959)
FATHER! WE ARE IN DEEP AWE
Father!
We are in deep awe.
Having gone it, we have come to understand that
this path is a magnificent path to go, and
the more that we experience it, the more we know that
it is a path of sorrow which can not be stopped
no matter how we smote our breasts.
Oh Father, who sought us
not for just a day,
and not for several years, but
for the long time of 6,000 years!
Please let this be a time of realizing
just how insane the position was that we put you in, and
just how angry a position we let you stay in, and
furthermore just how unfilial a position we were in.
Please let us realize that we,
who wept and cried over the things of this world
before forming this destined relationship,
are sinners among sinners.
What is the hope of those of us who have come here?
We did not come here to find someone wearing good clothes;
we did not come to find someone of authority, and
we did not come for the sake of some desire.
Since we have come merely longing for your love,
longing for your affection, and
longing for a destined relationship with you,
Father,
if you have tears,
please allow us to have those tears, also, and
if you have suffering,
please allow us to have that suffering, too.
Please let us realize that
it will not do unless
we become princes
who indemnify and in your place take responsibility for
the history of sorrow and suffering, and
we must not become princes who wander searching for a history of joy.
We know that you are longing for
sons and daughters who are victorious in a position like this,
and sons and daughters about whom you can boast
before heaven and earth.
And furthermore, we have realized that
the goal of God's having toiled for 6,000 years was
to establish beloved sons and daughters.
We earnestly request and desire
that you will allow us to become equal to the duty given us
and to be able to fulfill the responsibility given us today.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who are able to become
filial sons among filial sons,
filial daughters among filial daughters, and
loyal subjects among loyal subjects.
Then,
we earnestly request
that you, the father of history, may become our father;
that you, the father of the present age, may become our father, and
that you, the father of the future, may become our father, and
that you will protect and embrace these people,
Father,
until the day of joy comes
when we sing songs of joy mobilizing the entire universe.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(October 11, 1959)
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