Author: worlddiv

When I was in the first grade, something amazing happened.

A revolution in home entertainment occurred in Japan.

Until then, kids and adults played videogames at the local arcade, and this was a common activity for kids.

Now you could play games on your TV at home.

In July 1983, Nintendo Co., Ltd.  released the Family Computer (a.k.a. “Famicom”) videogame console.  

What was so amazing about this console was that you could play a variety of games by swapping out game cartridges. It may not have been the first home console to exist, but it did solidify the business model and videogames are now a multibillion-dollar industry.

New games were released one after another, and many children, including me, who were born in the mid to late ‘70s, were obsessed with video games.

One day, my parents took me to the shopping mall, and I found a newly released game.

It’s was a top-rated ninja game according to a then popular kid’s magazine.

I immediately picked up the box that contained the game cartridge and was tempted to buy it on impulse.

Looking at the price, I saw that it was sixty US dollars at the time.

That price was much more than I (and most kids) could afford.

I wanted that new game so badly that I went home feeling very frustrated.

Not giving up, I made a promise to my parents that I would help around the house more if they helped me purchase the game.

Thanks to my parent’s understanding, I was able to purchase the game finally and enjoyed it with my friends.

Not long after that, an incident occurred in the same shopping mall.

A group of boys committed theft, causing considerable damage to the store, including clothing and many game cartridges.

Soon, the authorities caught the group of boys.

They said, ‘We want clothes and games,’

Well, we all have such desires, it is part of being human.

However,

‘You can’t steal it.’

We all know that too.

The mind of ‘wanting’ comes from your desire.

The mind of ‘behave’ comes from your consciousness.

Everyone has these dualities within.

Although we have to be right all the time, there is a possibility that we may end up being involved in injustice.

The story above is about children; however, it’s also true for the adult.

When it comes to desires, adults can be somewhat prone to excess.

In the business world, injustice never goes away.

In the world of politics, injustice never goes away.

It all comes from lust, and in essence, it’s no different than a child wanting a game.

The wars that have been repeated throughout human history are also primarily generated by desire.

‘We need resources.’

‘We need food.’

‘We want territory.’

At the same time, however, we all know ‘you should not murder people.’

It all starts with human desire.

Of course, it’s not true that desire is wrong.

God gives us desires for the sake of human progress, and we can never get rid of them.

Every person has desires. However, the truth is that there are two kinds of desires: healthy desires and evil desires.

Essentially anyone can have both of these, and it is up to you to decide which side of the pendulum you want to touch.

Many people exert a healthy desire, but sometimes people can fall into showing an evil desire.

Our desires never cease to exist.

That is why we need to continue to exercise our healthy desires, and we can also continue to be a good example to others.

In other words, we need to have the ability to suppress the evil desire.

I will continue next week.

Enjoy your life more, and stay tuned to World Divine Light.

Life has its ups and downs like a roller coaster.

When you face challenges and trials, what do you always think about it?

It might be difficult to avoid getting depressed about the challenges and trials and to accept the fact easily.

The good news is that challenges and trials basically happen before things around you change to the positive way, and it always comes from God’s Great Love.

According to Divine Teachings, God’s Great Love consists of two essences, “Great Mercy” and “Great Strictness”.

The nature of “Great Mercy” is mild and tender, and it refers “Salvation”.

On the other hand, “Great Strictness” is signified as tests and exams given by God through various challenges and trials.

If God’s Love is only mild and tender, most people surely rely on His gentleness and tenderness, and it might postpone improving ourselves.

Since God loves His children very much, He prepares not only blessings and rewards but also challenges and trials for their improvement as necessary.

The challenges and trials manifest various events that most people believe as misfortunes, such as disease, conflicts, financial issues, and so on.

God silently and quietly watches over His children to see what kind of action they will take after giving them tests.

Sooner or later, God puts them in another test and examines what they do.

In addition, God is not cruel, so He occasionally blesses “Salvation” to His children.

By repeated test and salvation, God tries to improve not only their behavior or deeds but also to positively develop their spirits.

The combination of “Great Mercy” and “Great Strictness” helps human beings to evolve each soul through accumulating experience.

Besides, we can help many people through our own testimonies that we overcame the challenges and trials following the Universal Law.

When I was a high school student, I suddenly faced a severe health condition.

I couldn’t attend class even though I wanted to be there.

The situation depressed me so much, but only thing I could do was receive and give Divine Light.

After engaging in the sessions of Divine Light, my health condition somehow became better, and I was really happy to move freely for the sake of God and the sake of others.

After overcoming the challenges, I enrolled in the college of World Divine Light in order to become a missionary.

I have met many people who struggled with health issues like I had.

I developed the confidence to encourage them through my testimonies.

Without challenges and trials in the past, I guess it was difficult to understand it and grasp the joy of helping others through the Divine Services.

Those experiences in the World Divine Light Organization have shaped my character.

If you face challenges and trials, please accept it and confront difficulties with your hope and expectation that you will discover something new in yourself and become the the shining Light in your family and society.

May God help you to open the next door!

A friend of mine told me her incredible story about a narrow escape from death.

One day, she arrived home after having a long day.  She did not eat due to her busy schedule. After changing her outfit, the first thing she did was rush into the kitchen to cook something.  She was so hungry that she needed a hot meal as quickly as possible.  Once she began cooking, her phone, which was upstairs, began to ring.  Normally, this would be regarding as an annoying situation.  People do not want to be interrupted while in the middle of something.  Besides, her phone was too far away to answer.  

But then she felt a strange urge to answer this call.  The feeling quickly intensified, “I NEED TO ANSWER THE PHONE”.  So, she stopped cooking and ran upstairs to get the phone.  Then, a few moments after picking up her phone, she heard an ear-breaking crash from downstairs.  She ran downstairs to check what happened there.  She could not believe what she saw.  The kitchen was devastated. The whole kitchen ceiling had collapsed and smashed all the appliances.  If she had not gone upstairs to answer the phone, she would have been killed or severely injured by the falling ceiling.  Fortunately, she was completely safe. This phone call saved her life.  Something let her leave behind her phone upstairs, which is the safest place out of this situation.  Someone called her in the perfect timing so that she would escape from the falling ceiling.  She was not using fire to cook at that time.  If one of these factors did not happen at the same time, she would have a different future.  She concluded her story saying, “it must have been an angel protecting me.”  

In our lives, those miraculous and unbelievable experiences of narrow escapes from deadly situations can happen. 

Some people may say that it was the coincidence.  Others might say, “She was simply very lucky.”

In our Basic Practitioner Seminar, there is the teaching of “Guidance from Guardian Spirits.”

Generally speaking, minors should be accompanied by their guardian.  As such, each individual has a invisible connection with entity called “guardian spirit(angel).”  It does not matter who you are, how old you are or what kind of position you have, but we are all accompanied by guardian spirits. In my friend’s case, it must have been the arrangements from her guardian spirits.  

Then, what is the mission of the guardian spirits?  The answer is to protect and guide us behind the scene from heaven.  They are watching over us for 24 hours seven days a week, even while we sleep.    They are like the parents looking after their children to protect from danger and guide them to have a better result.  They are doing their best to protect the person so that they can have smooth life, avoid misfortune and meet relevant person.   They could even remind us to finish the homework or bring an umbrella with you.  We all have their back-up supports every moment from heaven.

Let me also share one of my own experiences. 

One day, I headed to the office for an appointment.  When I arrived at my office, I realized that I left my phone at home.  It was a few hours of the appointment, so I thought that I could survive without my phone.  However, I remembered that there was delivery arriving at the office and I needed the phone to have the confirmation.  So I made an unexpected trip back to my home to pick up my phone with my small frustration accusing myself how come I left my phone at my apartment. After picking my phone up in the living room, I somehow went to the kitchen to check the food stock in the pantry. To my big surprise, my eyes caught the smallest flame of fire in my cooking stove.  Instantly, I turned it off the fire.  I found bigger carelessness of mine than leaving the phone at home.  I thanked God and my guardian spirits for this special arrangement to avoid awful accident which I might have caused.

Ever since this experience happened to me, conveying my gratitude towards my guardian spirits became one of my routines. Simply, I say in my mind, “Dear guardian spirits, thank you very much for your hard work to protect me from heaven.”  

The chain of gratitude and “Thank you” will bring another positive consequence.   “Thank you” is the magic words to build a powerful relationship with God, our guardian spirits and people around us.  If you send out your positive energy of “Thank you” around you, the vibration of “Thank you” will definitely come back to you.  I strongly believe this small habit will build a stronger connection with our guardian spirits.  Your guardian spirits will adore your acknowledgment and they will give you their utmost guidance, support, and protection.  This is tiny secret from heaven.

Sharing how you are grateful for your surroundings including your own angels from heaven, you will find pieces of happiness which will lead you to have a blessed and successful life.

One of the most important topics that I talk about in the Divine Light basic seminar is God’s Divine Plan.

God, who created this universe, has a purpose.

His purpose is to imagine a civilization where people, the children of God, would live happily in a heavenly kingdom on earth like God’s world.

This is the reason why He created the sun and the earth, made people to live on it, and sent us down to earth.

God’s plan is moving forward on a scale of hundreds of billions of years.

So why did God decide to create heaven on earth in the first place?

That’s because God had an artistic mind.

The universe, the sun, the moon, the earth, it’s all God’s art.

Every living thing is also God’s art.

The beauty of God’s art is that it prospers permanently once His art is imagined.

And we, mankind, are God’s highest works of art.

Among all God’s art, people are the highest art, and they are created as God’s representatives on earth.

All people on earth are equal before God, and they are all children of the same God.

The country is now being rocked not only by the coronavirus, but also by the issue of race in the US.

Various arguments are being preached against racism, but our answer to this racial issue is clear:

‘All people are equal before God.’

This idea is indisputable.

Each race has its own role that God has given to them, and all people have their own role to play.

What roles people are given?

All roles are to realize His great project, creating a heavenly civilization.

God’s plan is being carried out on a time scale of hundreds of billions of years, and the Kingdom of God will continue to advance according to His plan.

When we think about this grand plan of God, we can understand the mechanics of the reincarnation that I have been telling you about for the last week.

We are given a role when we come down to this earth, but that role is not a temporary one.

Each one of us has a role to play every time we are reincarnated, and hopefully we will fulfill our role given to us by God and return to the astral world.

And the good news is that as we try to fulfill our role, our abilities keep improving.

And the growing opportunity gives people joy.

That’s why people are happy when they can see their own growth, and others recognize your growth.

And what happens when people’s rebirths continue?

More experienced souls are coming into the world and the world is getting closer to the kingdom of God.

In fact, there has never been a more evolved period in human history than now.

This is because God’s children are growing, and human civilization is evolving at an ever-increasing rate throughout human knowledge.

This is the purpose of man’s continuous growth.

However, even as human beings are evolving, there are unfortunate tragedies happening in many parts of the world, such as conflict and deprivation.

There is a clear reason why those tragedies keep happening.

We will continue next week.

Enjoy life more, and stay tuned to World Divine Light.

I often felt sorry for horses when I was a kid.

In the days when there were no cars, horses were one of the primary resources for labor.

In America, it was common for pioneers to ride on horses to get around, and often the horses would carry people in a wagon.

Whatever people’s intention is, I felt sorry for the horses as they had to run and run, while unable to disobey people’s commands.

The horses still run in today’s car-driven society such as horse racing.

Horses used to be the mobile power for people in the past, but today they are used as a means of entertainment. (I don’t mean to criticize the horse racing though)

I felt sorry for them as a child when looking at such poor horses.

According to a biologist, however,

“Horses love to run.”

It is true that we, too, suffer from pain at first when we jog, but at a particular moment, we feel comfortable.

There are moments when we suffer at first, but at a particular moment, the pain turns to comfort within the body.

This comfort is called a runner’s high, and I wonder if the joy of running is stronger for horses than for people.

If so, then perhaps the horse has been given the role of running by God.

The horse must feel joy in fulfilling its God-given role of “running.”

God has given every living thing in the universe a particular role in this way.

Every animal also has a particular role to play and are created to feel joy when fulfilling their purpose.

Then how does a person who is a child of God feel joy?

I believe that each human being, without exception, feels joy in his or her growth.

“I can now ride a bike!”

“I can ski now!”

“I’m getting better at singing!”

“I’m getting better at drawing!”

“I can now make delicious food with new recipes!”

It’s a great feeling to be able to do things that you couldn’t do before.

And I think people feel great joy when their growth is recognized by others. Real self-esteem is earned.

Why do you feel happy when you can do the things you were not able to do before?

Why is it helpful to be recognized by the people around you?

I believe this is because God created His children to rejoice in their growth.

And the story of your growth does not end with this life.

After birth, the ability we have in this life is the accumulation of experiences from previous lives.

And in this life, we can refine the abilities we developed in the previous experience and grow even more by the time we go back to the astral world, another dimension after death.

When you are reborn in the next life, you will be able to start a new journey based on the growth you have built up in this life.

After all, life is the story of the growth of your soul.

The good news is that the experiences you have built up as you grow are yours alone.

Someone can steal your belongings or money.

But your life experiences are etched into your soul can’t be taken by anyone else.

The experiences you accumulate for your growth will remain as your eternal treasure.

Then why did God create a system that allows people’s souls to continue to grow?

Here is the mechanism of God’s governing system.

I will continue next week.

Enjoy your life more, and stay tuned to World Divine Light.