A day can be divided into morning, day, and nighttime. Each looks consistent, but they change every moment. During the process of moving from morning to noon, there is a time when it is difficult to know whether it is morning or noon. Also, when it becomes night from noon, there is a time in the middle when it is difficult to make a distinction between day and night. The same goes for the night. There is a point of separation where it divides. It is easy for us to miss that parting moment. Isn't that so? We don't know when it changes. Even when we look at the four seasons, spring changes to summer in a moment, within the sound of a tick. You do not know when spring becomes summer. It is a very simple problem but very difficult for anyone to know. Also, we cannot know the time when summer becomes autumn or when autumn becomes winter. We can say the same thing with our life. The life of a human being changes from childhood to adolescence, middle age to old age. However, when we pass on to adolescence from childhood, there is no one who remembers it and says, "Oh, I have finished my childhood and I am going on to my adolescence." No one has ever felt this moment as acutely as a racer standing on the starting line waiting for the split second in order to run. Therefore, it is also difficult to know the moments we pass over in our lives. Rare is the person who clearly knows the right time, thinking, "This is the right time," and with a "Ready, go!" greets the new age with happiness. (58-239) Those who live day by day saying, "Oh, that day is that day and this year is the same as last year," or, "They say the providence is developing, but that is that," becomes a falling leaf. You must know that since this person cannot connect to life, he or she will become an autumn leaf which easily falls. For this reason, we must think about the right moment more deeply. When morning comes, we have breakfast. Even when we eat breakfast, there is the moment that we start eating, the moment when we eat and the moment when we stop eating. To know these moments day after day is very difficult. Likewise, the heavenly moment is passing through our process of life, but we miss it over and over again. Therefore, when we put our hearts into something we should not begin recklessly. You must know what kind of time that moment is and begin by setting a goal based on that moment. You should devote yourself much more than anyone else in the whole world. There are several billion people living on this earth, but you must devote yourself more than all other people centering on that moment, that one focus point in time. If you devote yourself centering on everything, when that degree of devotion becomes the core before several billion people, then God has to go forward binding a relationship with you. You must know that this is the providential course of God. If there is a person today among the members of the Unification Church who has a rebirth experience and devotes him- or herself pleading, "Please let me sincerely keep pace with the time valued by God, the world, and the entire spirit world," and who also prays for God's will to be done on earth through our church organization, then he or she will be blessed. You will receive the special blessing to participate in the providence of the time. Even if you are a person without anything, if you prepare and devote yourself without being told clearly, centering on the right timing, then you stand in the objective position to the central figure who has the responsibility for the mission. Then even if no one knows about you, God will acknowledge you. If there is a person who repeats this kind of a work once, twice, or three times, then that person will receive the blessing of the time. You must know that God will acknowledge you through the foundation of that one generation. We members of the Unification Church have a rope of blessing or heavenly fortune. We, the central figure and myself, pull this rope together. If we both stand in a position where this rope stretches tightly, then you must think how blessed that position is. Therefore, if you are a member of the Unification Church, you must dedicate your life and be loyal to the way of the Unification Church. You must devote yourself day by day, hour by hour, matching rhythm and angle with the right time. That person will grow together with the fortune of the Unification Church. Those who follow the Unification Church might become tired and collapse. However, even in the midst of that, if there is a person who tries to tie a relationship with the fortune of the world and who devotes him- or herself in matching with the right time, that person will remain even after all others collapse. There is also right time in the way of the providence. Therefore, I'm telling you, let's know that time. Let's find that time and devote ourselves. We must devote ourselves at the right moment. It is no use if we devote ourselves without any preparation. When we devote ourselves, we must devote our entire selves at the right moment knowing what kind of moment it is. Through that time we must come into a relationship with God. When we think of this problem, we must think how extremely valuable it is to be able to stand in an objective position to God at the right moment, precisely knowing the importance of the right timing. (40-152) I am telling you, don't miss the time. Don't lose the time and have your work stolen. There are only two ways which Rev. Moon told you you can follow in order not to lose. Don't be a repellent person; be a loving person. You will never lose if you just do these two things. You just have to pass these two. These are the only things you need. Those were the only two things I could find out. (94-143)
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