7. The Highest Goal of Life
As we walk along our life’s path, where should we be heading? Our destination is to possess God’s love – to be owners of God’s love. To possess the love of God is life’s highest and final goal. Everyone, men and women alike, should take the path to this destination. Our life path should be a journey to the God of infinite love.
Of all the ways that human beings live, this is the loftiest path. On that path we may face life-and-death situations even ten times or a hundred times, and we may have to continue the search even after we die, yet we never stop searching for the love of God.
What is our greatest desire? It is to possess God’s love. You may have met God, but if you did not discover a love that is even more precious, then you have not made God your own. Therefore, you must strive to possess God’s love. Once you have love, there would be no problem even if God were not with you. When we possess God’s love, God’s love becomes my love and my love becomes God’s love. The internal and the external become one for the first time. A nation based on such love would be an ideal community. There would not be upper and lower classes.
When we dwell in that place of love, we feel that everything under the sun is good and exists for our sake. God’s love has that quality. Therefore the heavenly world, the Kingdom of Heaven, is a world filled with love. This is our final destination. (39-210, 01/10/1971)