Morning Devotion Reflection, Living a Heavenly Lifestyle, July 22, 2020

Morning Devotion Reflection, July 22. 2020

Title: Living a Heavenly Lifestyle

by Rafael E. Ablong

Dr. Yong's speech today is full of meaning and internal firepower. It heightened our sense of purpose and mission in life. I feel that God's spirit is using him so well due to his understanding and unity with God and True Parents' heart. He emphasized the concept of living a healthy, heavenly lifestyle and stressed the significance and praxis of total salvation. These two concepts today are so strongly connected. Resembling God's identity and integrity, and having the natural desire to witness as a result of our integral connection with the Loving God. These are highlights of his message today about "The Person Living a Heavenly Lifestyle."

The Heavenly Lifestyle
How can we apply the heavenly lifestyle? It is about "living a life of faith centered on God's heart within the internal relationship of parent and child, obtaining oneness in heart and externalizing this internal aspect" from the level of the individual and the family to the world. How can I unify with the world, the nation, the people, you and me? How can I harmonize with all things? Everyone tries to unite with all these people and things around us. What is the main harmonizing point?

We need to clearly understand that we need to go back to the origin, which is the fundamental truth. If we do not know the origin of the universe, it will be hard to harmonize and unite with all existences and relationships. We need to go back to God and use our understanding of His Heart and Situation to understand and harmonize with others.

The absolute truth is that God is our Heavenly Parent, and we are His children. We need to apply this understanding and relationship when we relate with people and all things. We cannot deny this truth. When we think about this, we will get the idea that we need to witness others and not deny our relationship with God. If this vertical alignment is not clear, we will not have the energetic spirit and witnessing passion that we need to undertake the responsibility of witnessing Heavenly Parents and True Parents.

We cannot have the desire and inspiration to witness when our vertical alignment is not clear. When we understand and internalize our relationship with God as our Heavenly Parent, we will have the power to externalize His words and substantially connect everyone else. We will automatically have the heart to witness people when we feel God's Heart and active presence.

When our faith and the conviction in our relationship as parent and child are not clear, our life's direction becomes unclear as well. Your heart will automatically want to witness others when our purpose, motivation, vision, and connection are clear.

Be Like the Fruit Farmer
We should be like the famous fruit farmer who raised his trees like his own children. He likes to see plants after he wakes up in the morning. He wants to touch them like touching his children. This story shows us that things can grow up through love. Even plants, trees, and animals grow well when we love them like our children. When the farmer treats them like his children, they feel his heartistic treatment, and they naturally show their health, beauty and goodness. This farmer does not know the Divine Principle, yet he applied the same parent-child relationship principle. He treats the individual trees with a heartistic feeling like he does for his children. That is why they grow so well, and people love the farmers' produce for them.

All things look for true love. Even the sun, moon, planets, and everything look for it. If we truly feel that God is my parent. If we genuinely sense that we are God's children, we would strongly feel that His desire is to restore all His children. If our children cannot swim and need to get off the water, how would you feel like parents? What would you do, and how do you save them? This is the same feeling of our Heavenly Parents. We cannot just look. We have to do something. Each second is urgent and important to save His drowning children. He needs to get them out of the water and restore them to the original position before they went into the water. They need to be alive. If this is how we feel for the people around us who need to be witnessed to God and True Parents, then automatically the parental heart and the urgency of the moment comes out naturally and it pushes you to witness and help God restore the other people. Thus, to experience God's heart, we need to have the concept of total salvation. If we have this concept of salvation, we can immediately connect to the heart of God.

How To Resemble God
How to relate with Heavenly Parents? How to resemble God? There are three things we need to do. One, we need to have the same concept of total salvation. Two, we need to have a personal touching experience with each member or human being. Three, we should not miss anyone. You should have a personal touch experience with everyone if you are the leader. Suppose we apply this principle in our family, center, community, nation, and the world.

To inherit God's spirit of salvation, we cannot let one person stay in hell. We need to save everyone. God is thinking of the whole world. Salvation is not just for the family, society, and nation, and the entire world starting from Korea.

True Parents always have the same concept of total salvation. That is why Heavenly Parent is always with him. This is what John 3:16 says. God is giving His only begotten Son for the salvation of the whole world. How can God always focus on True Parents? It is because True Parents are always concerned for the salvation of the whole world.

Pray, pray, pray
So that is why, as a leader, I need to pray every morning without missing. Always pray, pray, and pray for the whole world. When we pray, we need to pray for True Parents. We need to pray for Korea, the father nation, and Japan, the mother nation. Then, I pray for the American region: Canada, Central America, USA, South America. Then, I pray for Africa region, Europe region, and finally for Asia. It is because God is concerned with the whole world. If I am the son or daughter of God, I need to be concerned about the whole world. Not just for one nation or one person. That is why we need to pray for the sake of the whole world.

If you want to have the world to pray for you. You need to pray for the world. Then the world as a while will pray for you. For the sake of the world, I never miss to pray for each continental director. This is my secret. Since God is concerned about the whole world, I should be concerned and pray for the whole world. We have to have the same thinking. And then I came to pray for Asia, because Asia is the representative of the world. When I think of the Philippines, I pray for the Philippines.

Recently, I prayed for Thailand. Thailand is representative of the world. Thailand has 77 provinces, so I need to treat all provinces as the 77 nations of the world. So I want to be the representative of the whole world. We should not miss one province. Each province is one nation. We should have members and VIPs in all provinces. The national leader should embrace the whole nation.

Total Salvation
The national leader has to have a concept of total salvation for the whole nation. The national leader has to pray for all provinces True Parents are talking about the nation's salvation and the world. We need to resemble their thinking. National restoration is about saving all provinces. We have to think day and night about national restoration and world restoration, too. We have to have the same resonance. Our relationships and resonance should resemble that of God in dreams, ideals, and vision. We should have the same thoughts, feelings and aspirations.

Our thinking should become our dream, and dreams should become our vision. With these thoughts, dreams, and vision, our united aspirations for humankind's total salvation will come true. Then ,we will have inspired individuals and families around us in the community who could do more to save or restore this world. We need to have the same concept of total salvation and the same kind of education about patriotism to our fellow brethren.

Inherit God's Way
How can we remember something very important? Our brain capacity is limited, especially when we get older. We have dementia and Alzheimers when we grow older, but when we really want to remember, we need to feel the heart of members and places. This can be done if we visit and witness the different places of the country.

When I have the concept of total salvation, Heavenly Father gives money, resources, and the people I need to actualize total salvation. That is why if we have the same concept of total salvation. Then, God can give us support. God is our sponsor. God is our parent. How can He take care of His children as a parent?

We need to inherit God's way of loving and managing his children and things. It is through his personal touching experience. As a parent, God needs to have a personal touching experience with all his children. God's ministry is an individual touching of the heart. So even if you have ten children, you need to have a personal touching experience with each of them. As a leader, we have to do the same. We need to follow this kind of ministry.

Heavenly Lifestyle and Witnessing
Third, as a parent, we should not miss anyone. Everyone should have a personal touching experience with each member. You should not miss anyone. It is essential to have everyone have an unforgettable touching relationship with each other. This is how to take care of each member. No one should be missing. We need to inherit God's heart.

The person who lives a heavenly lifestyle could truly witness, So let us love our nation: have a personal touching experience with each other and make sure no one is missing our touch. In this way, we can give total salvation to all people in the world.

Thank you so much Dr. Yong, for this very inspiring message today. It makes us feel closer to you. It inspires us to help God, and True Parents give total salvation to all the people in the world. Having a personal touching experience and seeing to it that nobody is left behind missing our personal touch of the heart. Living a heavenly lifestyle will not just need a lot of internal effort and enthusiasm to unite and sustain our valuable relationship with God and True Parents every day. It will also need a lot of heartistic commitment to unite with God and His purpose and, above all, end His Sorrowful Heart.

Rafael E. Ablong