Deuteronomy 6:5

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

This is the great commandment. It is a commandment. Who has the right to give us orders?

Psalm 68:18

You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.

We only obey an authority that lives with us.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Ephesians 3:16-19 English Standard Version

16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

To know Him is to love Him and we cannot know Him until He abides with us. He cannot abide with us until we surrender this life for the better promise of this life in Christ.

Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

• Romans 5:2
  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• Ephesians 3:12
  in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

We can only gain access by placing the faith God gave us in His Son Jesus Christ and then and only then can we hear by faith the commands of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

But we still have to choose to obey.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 10:17

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 16:26

but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—

Hebrews 11:1

By Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Deuteronomy 32:20 is included in this list to remind us of a past in which God was faithful to hear the cries of His people and save them out of Egypt but hid His face from them because they did not trust Him. They saw the power of God first hand and yet that was not enough to cause them to trust God. The Hebrew word in that verse for faith is ‘ēmûn and is connected to issues of trust.

There are 23 dictionaries listed at BLB.ORG that have a variety of things to say about faith, its meaning, its use, its function, its power but none of those come close to the reality of placing our faith in Christ. 

1 Corinthians 2:5

so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Faith does not rest in the wisdom of mankind. It rests only after God has used it.

God is not finished using our faith to serve His will.

Press on.