Lately, I heard a rumor that in some Christian churches, the people who make a large amount of donation are chosen to be elders. That should not be the case in the Unification Church. Someday, I would like to visit the churches to see who are chosen to be elders. How can the elders be chosen depending upon the amount of donation? Donations should be made in the position of giving your own life for the sake of a nation or the world. That is a higher position than the chief priest of God.

That is why centered on the heart of love, as we offered all things and our beloved possessions, we should be willing to offer even what our own beloved sons and daughters love, which is an offering object on a higher level. Then, not only we but also our own children will be eventually liberated from the bondage of Satan.

If God decides to accept an offering, one can be elevated to a level closer to God. Such a dispensation was led in the Old Testament Age. In the Old Testament Age there were various kinds of ceremonies through which different levels of objects were offered: individual objects, environmental objects, objects on the level of a people, and objects on the national level. The religion that followed such protocols centered on God was Judaism.

Then, what is the purpose of offering objects? It is to open a way for people to become true people through the things that are sacrificed. From this perspective, today, when we received a Day of All Things, you must understand how great a contribution all things made for the restoration of humankind. When the time is ripe, you, on behalf of God, should have a loving heart to cry for them with love, embracing them, and say: "Thank you so much for your sacrifices for us."

Even a piece of paper is represented by our forbears' offering objects that were prepared by their sweat and blood. Knowing this, you should embrace it with a loving heart. When you treat the things of the creation with a heart that you do not indifferently pass by even a piece of paper discarded on the street, you can become their true master and they will be grateful to you for becoming a bridge to God's love, and will say that they are finally relieved from the pain and bitter grief that was caused by being sacrificed throughout history. You should become the kind of people who can live with the realm of the creation as your embracing environment. Then you can qualify to inherit the sacrifices of your ancestors and the priceless sacrifices of the various religions people. This you must clearly understand. (166-71)