Children Who Comfort God’s Heart, June 4, 2020

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

Message: Children Who Comfort God’s Heart

June 4, 2020 by Rafael E. Ablong

Dr. Yong’s message today about the “Children Who Comfort God’s Heart” made me repent of my sins and mistakes and take responsibility for the sins and mistakes of Adam and Eve, and all my ancestors. These are the highlights of today's message.

1. So how can I feel God’s heart when I deal with people?  “From now on, (i) need to throw away my external earthly desires and become a person who can represent God’s internal heart.“  When you deal with people. Do not just treat as just workers. You need to deal with them as God’s sons and daughters. We need to build up our heartistic relationship with them. We need to look at people from the viewpoint of God’s heart. When people become workaholics because we treat them based on duty or based on work then we cannot raise them as children of God.

2. We need to look at people from God’s Jeong Seong. We need to know the person’s origin and his family background to truly understand him. When we do this as a husband or wife, a brother or sister,  or as a parent of this person. Then we can easily understand him and God can help us to develop each other’s hearts and improve our relationship with this person centering on God. We need to love the person’s past and his potential abilities. We need to be “Shimjung-holic, not workaholic.  We need to think, how God has raised this person over the years. God has cared for this person of time. If we are the leader, w need to look at how we can raise the person for the future. His past, present, and future should be considered so we can help him accomplish his purpose from God’s viewpoint and feel God’s heart. We need to feel God’s heart through the people we deal with every day.  In this way, our mindset and feeling can comfort God’s heart and fulfill our purpose for His will.

3. Our existence is connected to our ancestors’ past. Everything is connected to our ancestors. We just need to be patient and wait without complaining. God takes ownership of each one of us, so we should be able to do so for each other. We are our brothers’ keepers. We need to train people for the future.

4. When we go with the person’s socio-emotional experience, we become one with him and our relationship develops. When that person is sad, we should become sadder. If he is happy, we should be happier. We should be with that person when he is down or up, in high or low water.  

5. God treats us the way He does because he wants us to become a victorious people. The reason why True Father was able to walk his path is that he understood God’s Will and how God has raised him. When Heavenly Parents trained up True Father, He was cold-hearted. He does this to every one of us, too. This is because He needs to have us undergo trial and grace to become strong and successful from the individual level to the higher level, from the time we were young until we can return to Him. Trials come continuously to make us strong and worthy to receive His grace. God raises us this way to completely remove our fallen nature. So we must be thankful when trials come our way.

6. To overcome any trial, first, we need to think this is God’s Will for me to grow up. Secondly, when we undergo a trial, we need to appreciate it. In any situation, our heart should always find a positive point, not a point to complain or accuse. Jesus never complained to God. He comforted God, “Father, this is your Will. I will follow, I will obey. Not as I will, but as You Will.” This is why to overcome our trials and difficulties, we need to think it is God’s Will and appreciate these trials with a grateful heart. A grateful heart will always triumph over difficulties and challenges in life. Trials are opportunities for us to grow and to show our love to God. Even if God wants to kill me as an offering, it is okay to die for God’s Will. 

7. If we complain, we cannot be an offering. Offering belongs 100% to God. My offering does not belong to me, it belongs to God. If we complain, we belong to Satan and he will accuse us if we offer a complaining heart because the nature of complaining originally comes from Satan. Complaining allows Satan to accuse. That is why, in any situation, we should have a grateful heart. Satan is afraid of the person with a grateful heart. We become God’s children when we appreciate and have a grateful heart. We become Satan’s children when we have a “complain-full” heart.

8. A deep life of faith with God is when I am sad if God is sad, happy when God is happy. This kind of lifestyle can liberate God’s sorrow and naturally shares with His life and happiness. If I succeed with this kind of standard then I have done my share in resolving the problems of the world. How can we get to this level? We cannot reach this level of heart and unity with God all of a sudden. We need to undergo a process to reach this level. Part of the process is meeting different kinds of people and expressing oneness with them in the heart. When they are sad, be sad. When they are happy, be happy. When they experience difficulties, we should experience these difficulties with them and help them solve their difficult situations. In short, participation in the life of God through other people will help us to understand God’s situation better and reach this level of oneness with Him. It is like marriage, we go together for better or for worse, low or high water, even eternity does not make us fall apart. We become one through participating in God’s sorrows and circumstances.

9. Our fallen nature of making excuses or of passing responsibility to others will only get worse if we keep on doing it. If we excuse ourselves from any responsibility when something happens, nobody can solve the problem. Knowing the problem and accepting responsibility for it is the beginning point of the solution. We cannot pass the responsibility to Adam and Eve for our present mistakes. If we pass the responsibility of our sins and mistakes to Adam and Eve or our past ancestors, in the future, our descendants will do it to us, too. The problem of passing the mistakes and irresponsibility continues until someone steps forward to accept responsibility, apologize, and reverse it. As representatives of our ancestors, we need to take responsibility for the sins of this generation and the sins of all the generations before and after us.

I am so sorry for not fully accepting responsibility for the sins of Adam and Eve, and all my ancestors. So, “Father, Raffy will endure your tears in your place, Raffy will endure your sorrow in your place, so please be free from your sorrows. Let the unjust and unfair accusations against me replace the unjust and unfair accusations against you so that you no longer have to endure such atrocities. Please put away all of your struggles against Satan and all of the clouds that have shrouded your mind up to this day. Please pay indemnity using me as your offering. Raffy is here for you so please comfort your heart”

Thank you Dr. Yong for this day of renewal. Your message is the Will of God at this time when all of us are quarantined in our homes. It is the time to revive our faith, it is the time to renew and strengthen our life with Heavenly Parents and True Parents, and with our blessed families. It is the time to take responsibility for the past, present, and future sins and mistakes of humanity, console God, and comfort His heart.  Thank you very much, Dr. Yong                     

-- Rafael E. Ablong