Obedience to Truth

By obedience to the truth (through the Spirit), having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again- not of perishable seed but of imperishable- through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:22,23

Here we have it - obedience to the truth, not to how I am feeling about you or what is happening in my world, but according to the truth. There is only one source of truth, the Word of God. If I deal with myself and my neighbour according to the word of God, I do well. Because the word brings life through the Spirit, whereas in myself no good thing dwells.

I can only walk this way, by the Spirit. He gives me the way, the path, the light to walk on that path. Amen! If I first go to God to have my heart cleansed, then my attitude to you comes from a pure heart. In the Lord's Prayer 

Jesus taught us to ask for forgiveness so that we could forgive. Forgiveness comes from a forgiven heart. A forgiven heart know the grace that has been poured on it to cleanse it. Grace is good! Amen'