Only a purified soul can truly love another soul. Impure hearts are inhibited from seeing eye to eye because of the weakness of the flesh. The flesh is full of itself. Every act of kindness is done for self promotion and for subjugation of the beneficiaries, except the soul is purified in the obedience of the truth of God's word, by the help of His Holy Spirit. This purging of the soul makes unpretentious love possible. Without it, every show of love is feigned. It's only in Christ that the soul is purified to live in peace with itself and with all men.
Have you ever seen a troubled sea? There's no peace within it and without. You cannot give what you don't have. "...Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another." (Mar 9:50) This salt can calm your troubled sea when it enters your soul to purge it and make it white as snow.
When the heart is cleansed you can see clearly that every man and woman is a blood relation, either in the flesh or in the spirit. Yes, every arm is yours to hold in all purity.
May the Lord help us. Amen.
1Peter 1:22 (KJV) "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently."
1Ti 5:1-2 (KJV) "Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity."
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