Obedience is the fruit of trust, surrender, and pure love. Obedience is the virtue that is perfected in My Sacred Heart. I only did the will of My Father because I live in Him, and He in Me. In our unity—oneness, I could never act outside of Him. This is love. This pure love moves you to the obedience of the Father’s Will. Therefore, a sign of genuine love in the Heart of the Trinity is perfect obedience to My Holy Will.

The purification of your desires is the first stage of purification in My Sacred Heart. (This is the first nail from My feet.) You begin to move only according to My desire and not yours. This requires greater silence and stillness of soul in Me. You have come to recognize My voice and the promptings of My Divine Spirit. At times God requires immediate obedience, as you just experienced; at others, your obedience is lived as you wait upon the Lord. The latter obedience requires greater abandonment and trust and, therefore, more pleasing to Abba, Our Father.

1 Samuel 15:22: “Obedience is better than sacrifice.”