1 John 5 1:5
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving the God and carrying out his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

So, I was reading this and I realized that there is more to serving God than enjoying it because He is a relational God and blesses us, etc. But "his commands are not burdensome,..[becaussssee]..everyone born of God overcomes the world." How amazing is that? That in obeying we overcome our enemies, our pains, our struggles, and what is unjust in our lives made just.


Now look at what Deuteronomy 30:19 says,

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

We don't just follow God's command because it is enjoyable, because to be honest, making the choice to follow Him is not always my "hearts desire". I want to follow what makes me "happy" right now! But there is more to following God than it being something worth while, we do it because of the promises God has for us. We obey God for He has given us life, not death. We obey God for it brings the fruit of righteousness, a loving relationship with the father that continues even with death, and a permanent gift to us of overcoming the world, of overcoming our enemies:

Luke 1:68-79
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed His people
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of His servant David,
as He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old,
that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember His holy covenant,
the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve Him without fear,
in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
And you, child [John], will be called
the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to His people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”