What is the fastest way for a person to go? Life is very short. You don't know when you will die, do you? Some time ago, I told someone who was seventeen years old that he had lived a long time. The reason I said that is that some people do not know when they will die. Seventeen years of age is longer than seventeen days or one year and seven months. People do not know their destiny. There is an important saying that we have to fulfill tremendous tasks in the context of a short life. The works of our life always remain.

If God truly loves this world, He has to clearly reveal the answers for life's tasks. Therefore, God says that human beings should love Him more than anyone else. God naturally stands in the position to be able to say that we should love Him more than anyone else. Do you understand?

Thus, the way of religious faith requires holding one's love for God, even at the cost of abandoning one's parents, family, nation and the world. If you do this, it will look like everything has been destroyed, but history will support this way, and the world, nation and people will praise those who gain victory by following this path, because it is the way to reach perfection. Therefore, the motto of the highest level of perfection is, "Live for God and love Him!" Is this clear? Therefore, religion teaches us to love God more than anyone else. Jesus also said that since Jesus is the son who carries on God's love, if one loves Jesus more than anyone else, that person becomes united into oneness with God and His son. Jesus' statement that those who do not love him more than their spouses, parents, or children cannot become Jesus' disciples has this meaning.

From this point of view, God has no choice but to give human beings, who are living a short life, the best possible motto by which to live that life: "Love God more than anyone else." People can become God's children by practicing that. If you become God's child, at the same time you come to be in the position of a perfected saint, loyal subject, and filial child. Everything is completed. Such a person is in a victorious position in their family and on the level of the nation and world. (100-157)