“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” John 14:15

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Jesus explicitly establishes the order: first love (fellowship), then keeping His commands (obedience). Fellowship with God leads inexorably to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed. Adapted, Born After Midnight, A.W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)