The Church At Brierfield

Have you ever wanted to know God more intimately?  Have you ever wondered why He seems hidden and wished He would reveal Himself more clearly?  His desire is that we know Him clearly but He will not reveal Himself unless we love Him obediently.

The basic characteristic of those who love God is obedience.  “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”  (John 14:15)  “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me.”  (John 14:21a)  “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.”  (1 John 5:3a)  If we say we love God and do not obey His commandments then we are deceiving ourselves.  “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”  (James 1:22)

When we obediently love God then He will manifest, reveal, and show Himself to us.  “He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”  (John 14:21b)  If we want to truly know God then we must make a sincere commitment to obey Him and follow through with it in our daily lives.

Recently, while thinking back on when the Lord began to reveal Himself to me in a life altering way, I thought of a particular time in my life.  On December 28, 2008 I wrote the following in my journal, “What would one’s life be like if one resolved to believe and act upon everything the bible teaches?”  Then I wrote out the words to the hymn “I am resolved”.  Finally, I wrote “I am resolved thus to do!”, signed my name and the date.  From that point forward the Lord has revealed Himself to me as never before.  When I began to learn AND keep His commandments is when I first began to love Him.  In response, He began to show Himself to me.