Why Do We Have To Keep All the Commandments?

The right to choose is one of the greatest gifts our Father in Heaven has given us.  It gives us the ability to choose right or wrong.  We can choose to keep the commandments or we can not.  When we choose to disobey we are turning away from our Savior, Jesus Christ, and denying the gifts he so desperately wants to give to us.  When we choose the right we open the door for Christ to bless us.  I know it can be hard to keep the commandments sometimes, but we must realize that giving up some of our time or effort to keep a commandments is like paying a dollar for a Farrari (but better)!  The blessings far outweigh the payment.

Moses with the Ten Commandments

We also come to keep the commandments out of love.  When we begin to recognize all the things our Heavenly Father has given us we grow to love Him back.  He is our Father.  The father of our spirits.  As a father He cares for us infinitely.  Nothing can stop Him from loving us. No matter how often we turn away from Him he is always there to welcome us back into His arms.

• 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

• 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:16-17)

One of the ways God has shown His love for each of us is through His son, Jesus Christ. 

He is at the door. Will we go and open it?

God wants us to be the happiest we can be while becoming the best that we can become (just as a father would).  He knows the way for each of us to attain the greatest happiness and our full potential.  He gave His son to show us this 'way' (John 14:6), and that is where the commandments come in.  They are they 'way' to the most happiness and each of our greatest potentials.