The Spring Of True Obedience To God!

2John 1:6  And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Love to God is the spring of true obedience to God.

One who is not obedient to His commandments, is evidently not a true believer...

For although good works do not save us...yet, being saved, believers are sure to produce good works.

Though the fruit is not the root of the tree...yet a well-rooted tree will, in its season, bring forth its fruits. 

So, though the keeping of the commandments does not make me a child of God...yet, being a child of God, I shall be obedient to my heavenly Father. 

But this I cannot be, unless I love God.

A mere external formal obedience is not sincere obedience in God's sight. 

He abhors the sacrifice, where the heart is not found. 

I must obey Him because I love Him or else I have not truly obeyed at all. 

See then, that to produce the indispensable fruits of saving faith...there must be sincere love for God.

John 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 
John 14:24  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

~Charles Spurgeon~