1) What Do You Live For?

The question is for whom and for what I should live. When you think of this question, you have to reflect, asking yourself, "What am I living for?" What have you lived for up to now? Have you lived for the earth or for Heaven? Until now, no one can say for certain that he has lived a life of completely fulfilling the will of the Creator.

Why is this? It is because of the fall of man. Because they fell, humans were forced to leave the original ideal garden in which they could live in virtue, an environment in which they could live for the whole. Fallen humans living on this earth are faced with the situation that while in their mind's depths they want to live in virtue and for the whole, their bodies do not function accordingly. We live faced with this situation.

Although humans by nature were meant to live in an ideal world, they-who should be noble-are in an unspeakably terrible place, barely managing to go on, all because of the Fall.

However, you feel that you want to live a better life. No one can deny that you want to live a better life, feeling greater, wider, higher and longer lasting value. Although our mind wants such a life, we don't have the substance to back up and to drive such a life; we have no such ideology. You may say that you live. However, can you say in confidence, "Heaven and earth and God, please cooperate?" You are not capable of that yet.

You yourselves are ignorant of the contents of life at the origin of Creation and incapable of talking confidently before some spirit men in spirit world, the creation on earth, and God, the Creator. However, some spirit men, the creation, and God are working for you even at this hour. In spite of such work, people have walked the course of history wandering about, struggling and longing for that world, not knowing whether heaven and earth and God exist or not.

The time has come for the students here to think once "As of today, What do I live for?" If God were to ask you, "What do you intend to live for?" how would you answer? Taking it one step further, if God were to ask you what you are really living for, you should in no way say that it is for yourself. For whom does a nation exist? You ought to know that a nation does not exist only for its own sake. Why? Nations, peoples, and the world are within the dominion of the great purpose of the universe. Therefore, it must be the case that no being is meant to exist for its own sake alone. (8-42)