Families of True love are the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven

Jesus said “the Kingdom is in the midst of you”.  In a similar way Rev. Moon says the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven are produced and raised in families that practice true love.

Here are a few words of Rev. Moon on this issue:

“Respected leaders from around the world, what do you think is God’s ultimate purpose for creating human beings? It is to experience joy through the perfection of ideal families filled with true love. What does an ideal family look like? Simply put, an ideal family is the model for absoluteness and peace. Its members have secured a parent–child relationship with God and can live attending God as their parent.

When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually rejoicing in each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen human beings have created, including national boundaries, the barriers between races and even those between religions.

Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of place is the kingdom of heaven? In brief, the heavenly kingdom is a world overflowing with God’s true love. True love is its axis. True love is everywhere, in the outward expression as well as in the inward thought. Everyone’s life is filled with true love from beginning to end. In the kingdom of heaven, people are born through true love, live in the embrace of true love and follow the track of true love until the day they pass on into the next world, the spirit world.

Ladies and gentlemen, the family sets the pattern for living together. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family of peace. This means that you need to establish a true family, wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.

Family members who have established that vertical axis can perfect the four realms of love and heart—parental love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’ love. That family links all directions—up and down, front and back, right and left. They revolve around each other in everlasting spherical motion. This is the eternal God’s model, ideal family, which expands to ideal model nations and a peaceful, ideal kingdom.

Excerpts from Rev. Sun Myung Moon in  “God’s Ideal Family and the Responsibility the Citizens of Cheon Il Guk Are Called to Fulfill”, given at Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea, on February 23, 2007