It's Good To Hear The "Why".

Read Deuteronomy 5 and 6
There are ten commandments in Deuteronomy 5. But Moses lays down the "greatest commandment" in chapter 6.
Deuteronomy 6:4 begins what Jewish tradition calls the Shema:

4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo on my hand...but I probably won't. Anyway, I found myself reading that over and over again. It's a greatest for the reason eh?

After laying down the commandments, Moses tells them a story they all know. A story that they easily forget. He reminds them of where they came from: SLAVERY, in Egypt. He reminds them that they were rescued by a Mighty Hand. Reminds them of the way God sustained them. And I love this verse [v.23]: And he brought us out from there that he might bring us in and give us the land he swore to our fathers. He's reminding them of his faithfulness. That he doesn't want his people be bound by slavery. He wants to bring them into something better.

Before Moses starts talking about the importance of obeying all the lays God just laid down, he takes a moment to remind them why. That they aren't just to obey the rules because they are rules.

Verse 6:24 "And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always that he might preserve us alive as we are on this day."

Obedience is hard. But knowing why you are being obedient, it makes it a little bit easier.