Why Be Obedient?

"If ye love me keep my commandments" 

was the words of Christ himself. 

A reason we are on the earth is to show our willingness to obey our loving Heavenly Father. 
Commandments and obedience are not here to hold us back from experienceing the world.  Heavenly Father knows us better than we do.  His commandments help us to live in the happiest state we can here and now. 

Mosiah 2:41

"And moreover, I would desire that ye

should consider on the blessed and ^ahappy state

of those that keep the commandments of God.

For behold, they are blessed in all things,

both temporal and spiritual..."

But, "There is a law..., upon which ALL blessings are predicated-
When we obtain any blessing from God,
it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated."  D&C 130:22

So any and all blessings we recieve are given because we were obedient to our loving Heavenly Father.  Heavenly Father wants to bless us.  It brings him great joy and happiness to provide us with blessings.  He is waiting for us to be obedient to the things he has asked so he can bless us. 

Obedience should never look like a hold up or something that is not fun.  Obedience is not something we owe to God, or he makes us.  It is how we show our appreciation to Him for all that he has given and done for us! 

John 8:32

"And ye shall ^aknow the ^btruth, and the ^ctruth shall make you FREE"