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If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands…
Leviticus 26:3

If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.
John 14:15 (AMPC)

Obedience

• Brings joy
  Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.
  Psalm 119:1-2

• Gives strength
  Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.
  Deuteronomy 11:8

• Love is perfected
  But whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in Him: whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which He walked.
  1 John 2:5-6 (ESV)

• God makes His home in our heart.
  Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
  John 14:23 (ESV)

• Gives life
  If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the LORD.
  Leviticus 18:5

• Yes – brings the manifestation of the Holy Spirit
  “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”  
  John 14:21 (ESV)

What if:

He asking something hard?
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 5:3 (ESV)

I’m confused on what to do?
Oswald Chambers has the answer: “Obedience is the key to spiritual confusion: Obey. Obey. Obey.”

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Obedience is the only way to live the life you’ve always wanted.