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Part of knowing the Lord is to appreciate his greatness and to understand that God’s ways are higher than man's ways. No wonder then that, as our spiritual needs are met, our earthly needs are catered for also. As we walk in obedience and trust in him, his guidance gives us peace. All these things work together, and they work patience, too. By enquiring of him, we discover that some lessons take longer than others for us to learn. Indeed, following God's commandments means learning for a lifetime. This life can be full of the goodness of God if we always seek to love out of a pure heart. This is how we show that we are God's people, by showing love to one another. Where love grows, faith grows also. Where there is faith and a good conscience towards God, there is also an abundance of blessings. It is a sad truth that we do not always walk in obedience, and being self-willed can lead us astray. God's desire though is that we can always find a way back to him and his ways of righteousness. We have to consider our ways and pray that when we have been shown our faults, we will sorrow after a godly manner. Godly sorrow leads us to repentance and a turning away from sin. Our great redeemer has blotted out all our transgressions, and as soon as we continue to obey the voice of our God, his response is emphatic. I am with you, says the Lord! What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Amen.

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
(Jer. 31:33-34)

But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. (John 16:13)

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God. (1 Cor. 2:10-11)

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Phil. 2:13)

A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another. (John 13:34-35)

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. (Rom. 12:9)

Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: (1 Tim. 1:5)

Be you therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling fragrance. (Eph. 5:1-2)

Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. (2 Cor. 7:9)

For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. (Heb. 12:17)

Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (Acts 3:19)

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you. (Is. 44:22)

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still here? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. (Judg. 18:9)

I call heaven and earth as witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live: That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. (Deut. 30:19-20)

Then spoke Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD. (Hag. 1:13)

What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Rom. 8:31)