Reflection of Dr. C. S. Yong's Morning Devotion
Message: Results Brought By Absolute Faith
May 30, 2020
by Rafael Ablong
Thank you so much Dr. Yong for appreciating and believing me. My ancestors must be happy. I wish God can still make use of me through you, my highest Abel after True Mother, or through my immediate Abel, Bro. Jun Jumawan. Thank you for this very important and historical guidance. Let me share with you what I learned and realized from your message today about "Results Brought By Absolute Faith".
1) To see is to believe, is science. To believe is to see, is religion. I think this is the unitary difference between religion and science. It is like the relationship between the mind and body. The body sees everything physical. The mind goes beyond the material and metaphysical, to the spiritual. Father said, "the religious life is actually to live in two worlds." (92:298, April 24, 1977) Faith is invisible. Yet, its visible results can recreate reality, destroy the walls of selfishness, and cure ancestral problems and diseases.
2.When we understand the time and the circumstance during the era of Noah, Abraham, and other central figures in history. There is a big historical gap. Even with that gap, however, we can still communicate with them. This is possible when we believe in these historical people's life of faith, loyalty, love, and obedience to God's Will and Purpose. Unity of heart, purpose, and motivation creates positive and meaningful results for Heaven.
3. Father said "when your faith is big, reality seems small. But when your faith is small, reality looms overwhelmingly big before you. (Way of God's Will, 3.4) Absolute faith, respect, and heartistic relationship with those central figures and our ancestors can make us inherit their faith and sorrows in history beyond time and space. With.absolute faith, the grace of living together with them becomes a reality. So even if Noah was alive 4000 or 4500 years ago, we can still meet and live with him, if we want to. This is the originally intended capacity of our physical and spiritual existence. We were supposed to transcend the limits of God's created world. The body relates to the physical and the spirit relates to the spiritual. Without the Fall of Man, both the physical and spiritual body should have had this kind of amazing give and take action centering on God.
3. We should not criticize our ancestors and the central figures for the sins and mistakes they have done in the past. Absolute belief can make anything turn into a reality. It comes through as you believe in it. Instead, we need to thank them for bringing us to this point in God's dispensational history of restoration so that we can reverse their failures and mistakes by learning from them and overcoming them, repenting for them to God on their behalf. We can only mobilize the good spirit world when we go beyond the normal meaning of absolute.
4. We cannot liberate our ancestors conditionally. We need to go beyond the idea and praxis of the condition. The only way for us to liberate them is to believe and respect them with love. We need to worship our ancestors and show them our love. When we have this kind of faith in our ancestors, then they will come down. So we need to believe in them, love them and pray or attend them then they can come and help us.
5. To receive a heavenly fortune, we need to have faith. Fortune comes from the heaven through our ancestors. Attribution of faith is help and cooperation. We cannot inherit someone's fortune without any connection of faith and action, cooperation, respect, and oneness of heart and purpose.
6. We should accept both our sins or mistakes and their sins and mistakes. We have to repent on behalf of them who have tried hard during their time but still failed at some point. We should look at ourselves as part of a big running relay. Each point in the universal and historical oval has runners, representing our ancestors and we are at the end of the relay race. Everyone has to run a part of the total distance. We should rise up when we fall and finish the race until we have successfully covered the whole distance. We have to feel the sorrows of God by inheriting the sorrows of our ancestors and our past central figures in history. So if Noah was a workaholic, who always worked for God's ark for 120 years, even maybe forgetting to love and care for his family So maybe he forgot to take care of his family, then we should have that kind of heart to console and comfort for that kind of sorrow.
7. Absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience enable you to inherit absolutely. So that when we apply these three absolutes then we become the very people we have believed in. So much so that when we have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience in God,. Then we come like God himself.
8. To inherit from the central figure is faith, respect, love and then attendance. We should never criticize our ancestors, central figures, parents, and leaders. The nature of criticism does not belong to God. We never inherit anything when we criticize. Heavenly fortune goes through the obedient people or person in the family. God only uses those who are obedient. Obedience is greater than offering. Obedience means "I already believe and love you. That is why the True Father put absolute obedience to the last one.
This message of Dr. Yong today makes me repent of my sins of disobedience in the past. As a blessed couple now, I feel that obedience means obeying together as a couple, and as a family. We have to support each other to fulfill the heart of obedience. So we need to be responsible, creative, and flexible to attend the Heavenly Will of God and True Parents through their chosen representatives. I always try to avoid criticizing my leaders and elders of the church and the family. This is because my conscience immediately tells me to stay away from criticizing and instead think of having the motivation how to help or support the leader or elder first and ask to clarify so I can support well.
Thanks a lot, Dr. Yong for another day of liberating inspiration. You always strengthen my conscience and determination to go beyond my limits while keeping everyone safe and secure in the ways of Heavenly Parents and True Parents. I will always keep your guidance in my heart and apply it wherever I will go. Thank you, thank you.
-- Rafael E. Ablong
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