- Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
The Holy Spirit said: “Think of all of them- yourself, lives, and your children- as ‘grain’ or ‘various fruit trees,’ and treat them in that way.” A farmer was growing grain and a fruit tree. However, even though he gave them water and fertilizer and cared for them, they were not growing well. What would he do when things were like that? Would he say, “You need to experience the suffering of not having water.
You grains~! You fruit tree~! I will not give you water or fertilizer until you come to your senses. I will not manage you either. So come to your senses and grow on your own.”? If he doesn’t water, doesn’t give fertilizer, and doesn’t manage them, would the grain and fruit tree come to their senses and do better? They will dry up more, wither, and grow thin. So in the end, only the owner will be even more disappointed. Then what should you do?
When you are disappointed and angry,…you must water more~, fertilize more~, and manage more~! If you do, grain and fruit will grow that much more. And then when the right time comes and autumn comes, you will harvest as much as you have worked hard. This is ‘the best method’!
Everyone, that is true with you, yourself, too, right? There are times you look at yourself continuing to fail to raise your level and do well, you say, “For you, praying does not help. Listening to the Word does not help. So just forget everything! You need to go through some suffering. Let’s not pray until you come to your senses. Let’s not listen to the Word. You will realize the desperation and come to your senses only if you starve!” There are times you think this way, right? That is not the right way to solve it. The more you do that, the more your thoughts, actions, souls, and spirits will become thin, feeble, limp, and even get discouraged. You must pray more, listen to the Word more, be more passionately and thankful, call God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son and keep going while giving more grace of fire. If you do, you will change according to what you have done and it will show right away.
If you don’t stop but keep managing, your body, soul, and spirit will all be energized and prosperous. This is ‘the absolute best way.’ Problems always occur when you are raising and managing yourself and problems also always occur when you are raising and managing lives or your children. The same is true when you are growing grain or fruit trees, right? Even though the owner fervently waters, applies fertilizer, and manages them, there are times when grain and fruit trees don’t accept them and don’t grow well. Even if that is the case, should you stop watering, applying fertilizer, and managing them? Even if that happens, you have to keep managing them with ‘the heart of a parent.’ If you do, even if they had withered and become emaciated, they will come to life again and you will gain a harvest. Consider the trees. What would the trees know? If they are dug up and taken, they get dug up and taken, and if you cast them aside, they get cast aside. The same is true with lives. If you make lives, they get made in the way you make them but will end up cast aside if you cast them aside.
Therefore, you must diligently look after, water, and give fertilizer to both yourselves and the lives. When teaching, raising, and managing, don’t stop just because you feel angry, it is hard, it is not working out, or you feel upset. Instead, at that moment you must continue to take action like a person would water and apply fertilizer. This is what ‘a person who has taken action’ is, and this is what ‘giving it all your heart, will, and life’ is! In the end, someone who has taken action will live ‘a life that attacks,’ and someone who has not taken action will live ‘a life that is attacked.’ If you do not take action, your life ‘will be attacked.’ But if you take action, you become ‘an attacker’ in life and will live that way. You have to take action. Then you will attack Satan and the problem will get solved. In the midst of everyday life, there are enemies of everyday life. As expected, you will solve them by attacking them through taking action.
Take action! – This is what ‘attacking’ is.
Someone who takes action but takes action only briefly will do well only briefly. You have to take action to the end. Only then will you do extremely well. Until when does one grow grains? Until when does one grow a fruit tree? It is until the grains and fruit are harvested. Like one would farm, like one would tend to a fruit tree, it is to not take your hands, heart, or eyes off them until you harvest and take action steadily (!), to the end (!), to the extreme (!), and at last! If you do, at the end, you will receive startlingly.
I urge you to continue to listen well to the Word that the Holy Spirit and the Lord educate you with. As people live their lives, exercise their faith, there are things that they must surely do. However there is ‘a way you can gain comfortably with less effort.’
To take action according to that way using that method, you must raise the level of your methods by studying and making effort together with the Lord. If you do, you can gain comfortably with less effort. When working too, if you don’t use your head, you will make only your body suffer great hardships. For example, let’s say that you have a lot of loads to carry with you. You can [carry them easily] if you load them in a car and ride in a car rather than carrying all of them yourself with much difficulty. In the Lord’s education and the Lord’s teachings, there is ‘the easy way to go.’ You have to pay attention and take action with that Word inscribed in your brain. Only then can you choose ‘the easy path’ and travel on it. However, you end up carrying all the burdens of work with difficulty because you forget the Word once you are done listening to it and do not take action being united with the Lord.
In both existing and fulfilling a purpose, things work out only as much as you do. You see only as much as you have done. Can just anyone see into deep water? Only people who learned how to dive and have such ability to dive can see into deep water.
People live their lives eating, wearing, gaining, and enjoying according to their deeds and their abilities. A child cannot drive even if a beautiful sedan was given to him. The same is true with blessings Heaven gave. You will gain and enjoy them according to your deeds and according to your abilities. That is why this year I am telling you to learn the Lord’s methods through the Lord’s education and raise your ‘level’ by taking action according to that education and methods.
The Holy Spirit said: “While pursuing ‘a rabbit,’ you will find, catch, and bring back ‘a deer.’ And while pursuing ‘a bird,’ you will find, catch, and bring back ‘a pheasant.’ Therefore, take action!” Don’t be disappointed even if things don’t work out the way you originally wanted. Take action! If you do, [God] will give you something better. Even someone who is riding Heaven’s fortune will gain only if he takes action. You say you took action but it did not work out? Even if that happened, there is no loss. If you have taken action, you are trained. So you became skillful. Therefore, next time you will take action more easily. As you do so, you will gain.