If you give God's words without responsibility, you will lose power. If you have received God's words in your heart, then you should believe them. You have to act after having drawn the line of goodness that you have.. That is why, when the noble families of long ago educated their children, they always taught their children not to speak lightly in the morning if possible. They taught them that in the morning, if possible, they should listen rather than speak. This kind of attitude is needed in one's life of faith as well. (40-73) Blessed family members should not try to achieve God's sovereignty, God's people, or God's domain conceptually; they have to achieve it substantially, always thinking about it. It is the time to act with responsibility. So even when you take one step, it should be a step to realize your goal. When you educate your children as well, you have to think about how you can educate them to become people who can fulfill their mission in front of the Will. Even when you are breast-feeding your child, you have to breast-feed him or her having this kind of thought. (12-134) You should become the husband and wife that the Messiah needs. You should have children that the Messiah needs. Become sons and daughters who have the tradition of the country. Follow the tradition of the sovereign. You must become parents who teach your children to do this. You must become people of love. The attitude of love is not just to say, "How cute. How cute." You have to be able to say, "Heavenly Father, how impatiently you have waited through the thousands of years of the course of restoration for sons and daughters whom you could love." You have to think, "Children with that kind of heart and love have to exist in order for the true country and the true world to appear." You have to think and teach your children, "Even when you are sleeping, sleep in the right way." Therefore you have to become parents who don't express your last wish when you are about to die, but who teach your children while you are alive. You have to become people who can die with thanks that you have taught your children well. You should not be parents who, when you are about to express your last dying words, busily say, "Oh, don't do this or that." It is a parent's job when they die, to look back on the secrets they have shared and the deeds that they have accomplished together with joy, asking their children to do even better than the parents have done. (55-87)
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