6. It is a Blessing to Have Many Children

If you look at the Bible, you see there are lots of stories centering on love. Did you ever see parents and children becoming unhappy the more they love each other? No. Because there is this rule: If you sacrifice love you will gain that love. That is why to sacrifice for God is drinking up God's love. (33-331)

You must live a life of gratitude. How do you appreciate something? When you see someone with many children, you may say that this person has a lot of hardship, but you know this person enjoys the happiness which a person without children has never tasted. People who have raised children know this. When you compare people who have raised children and someone who has not, people with children enjoy life no matter how their children rise and fall, but people without children cannot do that.

We enjoy life through children. Even if the environment is complicated, you cannot be unhappy, for you have hope for tomorrow. When you have many children, they spread out to each field with four sides and you have new hope, so it will be easy to overcome difficult circumstances. (35-283)

Because love is precious, it expands from an individual to a family, to a tribe, people, and world and still spreads out further. We enlarge it bit by bit through the generations. So how far will it go? To the world. Do you understand what it means? This is why having many children is no misery. The tribe that has many children will conquer the world. (162-53)

I said having many children is a blessing. Why is it a blessing to have many children, and why is a person with many children fortunate? Since one grows centered on the realm of heart, one can go up to a higher place near a standard of participation in the Kingdom of Heaven. There will be these orders, and it is all public. (171-21)

Is it better to have few children, or many children? (It is better to have many children) Why do we want many children? It is because by having many children we can fit in with characters of all four directions, and by having many children we can come near the ideal shape of the universe and fit into it. So that is why we want many children. (12-1128)

If you ask God, "What is your wish?" He will probably answer, "My wish is to save the world and humankind." Then when you ask, "When you have saved them, what will you do?" Will he say, "To make them work like horses and collect taxes" No. "I am saving them in order to let them live a life of gratitude for thousands of years centering on infinite love. That is my wish." The more sons and daughters parents have, the more the heart of love will expand in them.

Their character enriches 360 degrees, in every direction. So the conclusion is, people who have and raise many children must be good people, even if they try not to be.

My mother had lots of children and, while raising them, she had many difficulties and ups and downs. So if anything happens to somebody else, she doesn't think it's their own business. She helps this person, thinking of her own children. When you have a more heartistic expansion, then you become a good person.

Do you like having many children, or less? Let me ask you one thing. Do you like having many children or not? (We like many children) If so, go ahead and have many. So, even the offspring of the fallen world like having many children, so is it good or not to have many sons and children who can receive plenty of God's love? Everywhere you go, you will dance in joy.(82-319)