This document discusses how pursuing righteousness can lead to joy. It defines righteousness as pursuing goodness and unrighteousness as pursuing evil. It states that a righteous life is necessary to attain goodness. It then quotes passages from the Bible encouraging pursuing God's kingdom and righteousness first before worrying about basic needs, as God will provide those. It concludes by advising the reader to make themselves a perfect object for God by creating a circuit of giving and receiving true love within themselves.

1. How Can Pursuing
Righteousness
Make Joy?

2. Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6

3. Righteousness refers to that quality in a
person which leads him to pursue
goodness and further its purpose.
Unrighteousness refers to that quality in
a person which leads him to pursue evil
and further its satanic purpose. A
righteous life is absolutely necessary for
the attainment of goodness.
EDP Ch. 1 Section 4.3.3

4. So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall
we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’
or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the
pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows
that you need them. But seek first
his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to
you as well.
Matthew 6:31-33

5. If you thirst for true love but there is
nobody to give it to you, then you must
make yourself the perfect object to
God. Create within yourself that circuit
of give and take with true love.
Father Moon, 10th January 1982

6. Create integrated
(not segregated)
space for God to fill