No News is Good News? You Are Getting Your News From the Wrong Place!
Here's some good news- a new world order is blossoming: the world where man lives in oneness with God, where man and God are inseperable. Existing as God's "image" men live in harmonious relationships across the globe. This new world order is the ideal, peaceful world men have sought since the beginning of time. Historically only a dream, this new world order is now possible because of the visionary work of Rev Sun Myung Moon.
Is bad news still "news"?
Check any news source- cities,states and nations around the world face economic collapse. Governments, stable and unstable, are increasingly unable to provide fundamental services to the people. Because all existing economies and governments were formed from individuals of imperfect character they have mirrored the imperfections of their creators, inevitably containing the seeds of their own destruction. This is why there is such a gap between our mentality and our morality; this is why there is such a gap between the masses and the classes, even in the best of economic systems.
We all are children of God and we all have the innate desire to share equally in all the benefits that society offers. Every political-economic system- capitalism, socialism, feudalism, democracy, socialism, whatever that doesn't meet this criteria will ultimately face upheaval as individuals seek fair and equal treatment. Don't you also sense the injustice that surrounds us? People of conscious everywhere feel dissatisfied with the current world order of have's and have not's.
Einstein said, "you can't solve problems using the same thinking that created them." Can we solve the worldwide political and economic unrest without a fundamental change in human character? Of couse not! As Calvin Coolidge observerd, "Governments don't make ideals, but ideals make governments." Without a new vision humanity is doomed to repeat, in different forms, all the previous "solutions" to human misery. This new vision has come from Rev Moon.
New Vision for Mankind
God ordained man to be the "image of God", but have we seen this God-like character in humanty? This is the hidden root of all human problems. People are living lives of quiet desperation, seperated from God, serperated from each other. Rev Moon was called by God to pioneer the path back to that original standard. He has stated, "life in union with God is the one great way to live- life with God, life in God, and God living in you. This is the state where God is made the living reality. You no longer believe, but you know. And you live the truth." (God's Will and the World pg168) "God set the pattern for the universe. In the ideal existance we live for others. this is the very reason for our existance; we exist for others, for an object, for a counterpart. This is the principle for all human relationships in our society." (pg 170)
"Living for the sake of others", is the way men of perfected character relate.
There's got to be a better way
So what will happen when we achieve this state of perfection? Jesus was a man who attained this state of oneness with God. Though the Bible records very few of Jesus' words no one man has impacted history more. His ideas are often radical, even revolutionary. For instance, "If a man strikes you on the left cheek, offer him the right as well" is not the advice most fathers give their sons. As for economics Jesus said, "do not worry about what you shall eat or what you shall drink or what you shall wear,...for your Father in heaven knows you need these things; but seek ye first God's Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you."
Jesus was saying that the man who embodies God's righteousness will naturally create a culture and economy that embraces every other man in love. We don't build roads for a paycheck, we build roads to improve transportation. We don't study medicine to live in an upscale neighborhood, we study medicine to help people who are sick or hurt. We won't value people because of the work they do, but because they are people. Economic transactions, indeed all transactions, between people of love will be mutually beneficial and supportive. This is New Age economics at it's best! This is the new world order that everyone will welcome and support.
Live for the sake of others
Rev Moon's primary text, the Divine Principle, has a passage: "in God's Ideal of Creation God confers on each individual the same original value. Just as parents love all their children equally, God desires to provide pleasant environments and living conditions equally to all His children." When God dwells within us the things God desires, we also desire. No favored ones, no untouchables; no aristocrats, no plebians; no royalty, no masses, just children. Children of one living God, living as siblings, in one home.
Rev Moon has clearly identified the true new world order, "...people everywhere have ardently aspired to the world of God's ideal where the purpose of creation is fulfilled. In seeking for a socialistic society on Heaven's side, their original mind has drawn them to the ideals of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values. The world in which these ideals will finally be realized is none other than the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, under the leadership of the returning Christ." (Divine Principle pg 342)
The imperfection of human character that fills the world today has run it's course! St Paul predicted this time when he wrote in 1st Cor, "For we know in part and we prophesy in part but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." We are living at the intersection of human history- the old world order is established everywhere, but has failed everyewhere. It is based on human beings living seperated from God. A new world order has begun, based on human beings living in oneness with God. This new world order is growing even as the old world is collapsing.
How about this news flash, from the Bible:
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them.They will be His people and God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes....for the old order of things has passed away." Rev chap 21
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