John 14:21 – “I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
The Lord Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people. If you think Scripture did not declare this, many of the children of God could testify to the truth of it from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in a peculiar manner, such as no mere reading or hearing could afford. In the biographies of eminent saints, you will find many instances recorded in which Jesus has been pleased in a very special manner to speak to their souls and to unfold the wonders of His person.
In this way their souls have been steeped in joy, and they have thought themselves to be in heaven. Although they were not there, they were close to the threshold of it; for when Jesus manifests Himself to His people, it is heaven on earth; it is paradise in embryo; it is bliss begun. Special manifestations of Christ exercise a holy influence on the believer’s heart.
One effect of special manifestations will be humility. If a man says, “I have had such-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man,” he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for “the LORD regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.” Another effect will be joy; for in God’s presence there are pleasures forevermore. Reverential fear will be sure to follow. A man who has no reverence has never had this manifestation.
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Pastor Josh Laryea