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?
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.
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.
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.