If you live the life of attendance who should you serve first? You first must serve God. What is the purpose in serving God? Ultimately it is so that you grow well. If you are healthy, what must you then do? You must receive God's love. If you don't, no matter how much you try to develop yourself externally you won't be able to become a person who can keep God's love, and your life will not go well.

Until now, although the Unification Church has walked a path of extreme difficulty amidst persecution, it has not perished but has been developing in accordance with God's will. Not only because of that, but also because it has been in a position to receive God's love. When people belong to an organization which receives God's love, they are said to be protected by God. Is that right? Everyone, is that not right? Parents are always thinking of their beloved children even if children don't think of parents. Isn't that true even in the world? Consider a couple. The wife thinks of the husband and the husband thinks of the wife, even though they are not together. They pray for each other's well being and want to go to a place where one can help the other. We know that such a loving couple has such a destiny.

It's the same with a country. When a person's mind contains such love for the country, he receives such a deep sense of love. The citizens of that country will receive great blessings because of that person. Because of the person who loves the country so much, the country will receive much blessing. So the citizens of that country should aspire to be such patriots. If a country has many of these patriots, the country will definitely prosper. Why is it so? It is due to God's love. All the beings of a country are born within the grace of God's love, and consequently receive His protection.

Therefore even though a being does not know it, God's love is leading it on, closer and closer to His love. God's love pulls people and all created things towards Him. This is true of this physical world and of the spiritual world. The more you receive God's love, the more you will automatically develop one center. From that center an organization can develop. Then through such individual citizens and groups, where you nurture a foundation to receive love, you form a nation which can move the world. When we consider the question of why I should live a life of attendance, you should know it is for the purpose of receiving God's love. This is the reason why you should serve God first. (78-30)