Reflection: I Have Truly Yearned for People, May 26, 2020

Reflection of Dr. C. S. Yong's Morning Devotion

Message: I Have Truly Yearned for People

May 26, 2020 by Rafael Ablong

Dr. Yong's topic today " I have Truly Yearned for People" refreshed and reinforced my understanding of the importance of having a strong foundation of faith and substance to enter God's dominion of heart. This message is more than a flashback of the DP workshops and missionary immersion activities  I had in the past.  My mind hovered from the religious experience I had with my physical family, my participation in the activities of the different churches I attended in the past, and my historical encounter with some of the most passionate believers of True Parents.

I realized that whatever Dr. Yong's topic is during this devotion period, the internal drive and core content is always the importance of understanding God's sorrowful and yearning heart and becoming one with Him.  This core belief incessantly reverberates in my mind these days because of Dr. Yong's passionate delivery of this important message from Heavenly Parents. 

I feel the parental heart of Dr. Yong when he intentionally and conspicuously prolongs the emphasis of certain words in his sermon. I feel and understand the intensity of his effort to instill heart and inspire action among us. I think that for most of in Filjap, the best option to accomplish our mission is always to go back to the Philippines and achieve the goal of 430 blessed couples through the HTM providence. This is a big challenge and it is something that needs a lot of internal preparation and external capacity to fulfill it. Witnessing in Japan always feels like a calibrated, tactful, or futile attempt to approach people beyond the invisible limitations of its "privacy and reclusive" culture. 

This Covid19 pandemic presents a lot of difficulties and new challenges. However, if we focus on its consequent limitations to our external, economic, or employment difficulties. We will never be able to accomplish this mission of helping True Mother restore at least one-third of the world's 7.7. billion people. This pandemic is resetting our family, social, national, and global life. Yet it also presents us with "new heart normal" opportunities to harvest the field of humanity whose heart longs for the love and yearning of God.

The morning devotion of Dr. Yong is God's way of reviving and fortifying our internal and external capacities to produce concrete providential results for Heaven. It is God's instrument to realize the new normal of heart to heart relationships where every human alive can go beyond the boundaries of protocol, culture, religion, beliefs, and idiosyncrasies of each breathing human in this world.

I learn new words from Dr. Yong every day. Even the meaning and depth of the words change when he starts to use them as the tools to infuse divine love. I agree, there is one protocol in the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the protocol of heart and love. Only through this kind of protocol can we treat each other as co-equals in the world, being God's visible manifestation of His Existence.

Truly, I believe that entering the dominion of God's Heart is a gradual process. It takes time to raise the heart of a fallen man because he does not have the original heart and emotion centering on God. We need to undergo this process to enter God's Heart. This gradual process includes:

1.Foundation of Faith. We need to pass through Abel's heart and be recognized by him. This vertical foundation needs total unity with God's word, self-denial, and absolute obedience to Abel.  Wherever we go, we need to have an Abel. 

2. Foundation of Substance. In this process, we need to pass through Cain's heart. We need to be recognized by Cain as a man of heart and love so that all other Cain's will love and cherish their relationship with God through Abel. When we have this foundation of faith and foundation of substance, we meet and receive the Messiah through the blessing and then experience our Rebirth and resurrection in the love of God.

3. Foundation of Heart. Our final goal is to finally enter and settle in God's Heart. To inherit the Heart of God, we need to understand God's situation, His Dream, and His Purpose of Creation and how to accomplish it in our lifetime.

Thank you very much, Dr. Yong for reminding all of us of our internal goal to become beings with divine love and having good eternal relationships with our Heavenly Parents and True Parents. Thank you for bringing peace in our hearts, hope and love in the family, and vision of eternal happiness in this world and hereafter.  --Raffy Ablong