As we entered the 4th year
of Cheonilguk, True Parents gave us the motto of
"Proclamation of God’s Fatherland and the Era of the Peace
Kingdom" on the 37th True God’s Day. True Parents also added
that "proclamation" is different from declaration. The age
that they "proclaimed" does not mean that it will come in
the future, but that it has already begun -- the new age has
started as of midnight of January 1st, in the 4th year of
Cheonilguk.
So what is the era of
God’s Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom that True Parents
proclaimed? According to the New Year’s Day midnight prayer
of True Parents, this 4th year of Cheonilguk is a
year of great transition. Until the 3rd year of
Cheonilguk, True Parents have completely restored all
the ideals that God lost from the individual level to the
cosmic level since the Fall of Adam and Eve through setting
up all historical indemnity conditions with their blood, and
then returned those original ideals back to God. Upon this
foundation, True Parents can now proclaim God’s Fatherland
and the Peace Kingdom where God stands in the position as
the original parent, teacher and owner, and reign over the
entire cosmos with the absolute authority of the king of
kings. This is the era of God’s Fatherland and the Peace
Kingdom which has just begun with the beginning of the 4th
year of Cheonilguk.
Since the commencement of
the Completed Testament Age in 1993, True Parents have
already shown the coming of this age -- in which God’s
original ideal would be substantiated -- through various
age-defining proclamations, such as the age of the Fourth
Adam, the age of Cheonilguk, the age of the Nation of
the Fourth Israel, etc., and have prepared for this age
through final indemnity conditions. Based on this
providential progress, the age of God’s Kingdom on earth and
in heaven, the age of God’s ideal world has finally opened,
not in a conceptual or conditional sense but in a
substantial or real sense -- that is the era of God’s
Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom.
Owners of Cheonilguk
Then, how should I live in
this time and age? Even though God’s Fatherland has been
launched, if I don’t transform myself and become a
completely new person reflecting the ideal of God’s
Fatherland, then the "Proclamation of God’s Fatherland and
the Era of the Peace Kingdom" will end up being just another
proclamation which has nothing to do with myself. Now, what
can I do to transform myself, my family and my organization
that would fit in this original time and age?
Normally, the process of
transformation takes two steps. The first is the
transformation of mindset and the second is the
transformation of life itself. These two steps are obviously
not separate, but feed off of each other and occur
simultaneously. First, the transformation of mindset, in
other words, means a paradigm shift. What we need is our
clear understanding and perception of which providential
time we are living in and our new identity of who we are and
what we are in this time and age -- not from my own eyes but
from God’s eyes.
In the New Year speech,
True Parents have strongly stated that as we are in the era
of God’s Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom, we should
completely deny, even forget all the things that were
conducted during the Restoration Era and bear the traces of
Satan, and now must go forth to build everything anew on the
basis of God’s Fatherland as the owners of Cheonilguk.
Ever since the beginning of his public mission in 1998, Hyun
Jin Nim has also emphasized a new paradigm in the Settlement
Age. He has always taught us that now is the time of
accomplishing God’s original dream -- the ideal of God’s
creation. In order to do so, we have to throw out all the
baggage accumulated during the Restoration Era or the
Wilderness Age, and stand as the true owners of the
Settlement Age.
Therefore, as we enter the
4th year of Cheonilguk, we all must first have the
new mindset of "I am living in the original age of God’s
creation and I am the owners of building Cheonilguk,
aligning ourselves to the Vertical Axial Line of God, True
Parents and True Family."
Creating the Culture of
Heart
Next, with that
transformation of our mindset, we need to bring
transformation to our life itself. As the owners of this
original age we must relentlessly strive to fulfill our
responsibility and to substantiate the original culture in
our daily lives. Then, what is our responsibility? What is
the original culture?
On the Day of Victory of
Love on Jan. 2nd and on the commemoration day of Jesus’
birth on the 3rd, True Parents strongly emphasized that this
is the time of going beyond the revolution of indemnity and
the revolution of the conscience, and creating the
revolution of heart, so that we all become the owners of the
revolution of heart. True Parents also stated that we have
to bring about the safe settlement of the three generations
of the family which represents the Four Realms of Heart and
Three Kingships in order to create this revolution of heart.
In other words, as we enter the era of God’s Fatherland and
the Peace Kingdom, we must substantiate God’s true love --
that is, the four realms of heart or love -- in our lives.
The 2004 motto for W-CARP
as "Substantiating Core Values through the Embodiment of
Culture of Heart." Last year, I proclaimed that the most
important battle that we have to fight and win is the
cultural war in order to fulfill God’s final providence. He
has strongly taught us that we all -- from leaders down to
the members -- must substantially own the original Culture
of Heart; it should not just be a concept or word. Then, I
established the Core Values as a kind of specific code of
conduct, which systematize the core teachings of True
Parents based upon the Principle of Creation. If we practice
and embody the four Core Values of living for the greater
good, ownership, teamwork and dream big
centered on the vertical tradition of God, True Parents and
True Family, then we will be able to create the revolution
of heart, to substantiate the original Culture of Heart.
Especially, the most important among these four Core Values
is the first one which is living for the greater good
or living for the sake of others. This true love of
living for the sake of others should be the motivation
behind everything we do because this is the original impulse
of God’s creation and the tradition of True Parents’ whole
life. Upon this foundation of living for the sake of others,
we can naturally substantiate the life of ownership,
teamwork and dreaming big.
We are now living in the
providential kairos. In other words, all of history
ever since the Fall of humankind came to naught, and God’s
original ideal world, God’s Fatherland has just begun with
the beginning of the 4th year of Cheonilguk. Like the
verse from the Bible, "New wine must be poured into new
wineskins," we must first realize our new identity of who we
are and then transform our lives to fit this new time and
age.
As we enter upon the era
of God’s Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom, following the
teachings of our True Parents and Hyun Jin Nim, we should
become the forerunners of substantiating the Culture of
Heart as the owners of the revolution of heart embodying the
Core Values centered on true love of living for the sake of
others -- in ourselves, in our families, in our
organizations. Just like how darkness disappears with the
wake of the dawn, we have no doubt in our minds that when
the light of the Culture of Heart is lit up through our
lives, the darkness will disappear and the bright light of
God’s true love shall only shine the whole world.
