I want to ask you some questions.

I will be asking YOU these questions because I am not guilty of doing these things. I am kidding. I am as guilty of these things as we all are, It is just that I may be a step ahead of you in the only way for us not to do them and to become obedient children of God.

Do you see the faults in other people, the things that they do wrong? This is called judging others. You don't even have to say anything out loud to be at fault of this. God knows our thoughts. The Lord says,

Matthew 7:1-2Common English Bible (CEB)

Judging

7 “Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. 2 You’ll receive the same judgment you give. Whatever you deal out will be dealt out to you.

Do you harbor animosity or hate towards someone because of what they did? The Lord says,

Matthew 6:15Common English Bible (CEB)

15 But if you don’t forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your sins.

Do you disobey (known as sin) God's laws, His commandments? It really does not matter which, The Ten Commandments, The Mosaic Law, or Jesus' New Commandments. They are all really one in the same, just said differently. The Lord says,

Romans 6:23King James Version (KJV)

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Did you know that even if you have accepted Jesus' payment or atonement for your sins but you keep on sinning, His atonement may go away? In other words, your sins are no longer forgiven. This depends on I guess you might say, the driving force of you continuing to sin. You may or may not know why but God for sure knows.

Hebrews 10:26-27Common English Bible (CEB)

Judgment for intentional sin

26 If we make the decision to sin after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there isn’t a sacrifice for sins left any longer. 27 There’s only a scary expectation of judgment and of a burning fire that’s going to devour God’s opponents.

Jesus was asked,

Matthew 22:36-40King James Version (KJV)

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Jesus made those two commandments His to us.

Now, here is the good part, the ONLY way we CAN obey them.

John 14:16-31New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Role of the Spirit (The Living Water)

16 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another [a]Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. (For us now, we receive The Living Water when we ask Jesus for it.)

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 [b]After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.” (Again, you can not keep His commandments unless you have The Living Water in you.) 22 Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. 28 You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; 31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father,[c]I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.

Our obedience depends on receiving The Living Water (The Holy Spirit). Jesus freely gives us the Living Water. We just have to ask Him for it. Jesus has done it all for us.

Edited 7/23/16
If you can grasp what water does in our bodies (see blog post "Living Water"), the Holy Spirit is doing the same kind of thing but He works on the spiritual side of our bodies..

From "For Dummies" website:

"You need water to

• Digest food, dissolving nutrients so that they can pass through the intestinal cell walls into your bloodstream, and move food along through your intestinal tract." (Living Water - Gets all the good things that we need from Jesus)
• "Carry waste products out of your body." (Living Water - Removes the bad stuff - sin)
• "Provide a medium in which biochemical reactions such as metabolism (digesting food, producing energy, and building tissue) occur." (Living Water - Helps us to receive the things we need from the Lord) 
• "Send electrical messages between cells so that your muscles can move, your eyes can see, your brain can think, and so on."  (Living Water - Helps us to obey)
• "Regulate body temperature — cooling your body with moisture (perspiration) that evaporates on your skin." (Living Water - Gives us peace)
• "Lubricate your moving parts" (Living Water - Keeps us in good working order)

You can't see Jesus but if you are reading this right now, He is right there with you. He is standing at the door of your heart. If you open your heart to Him, He will come in and be with you. No matter how bad you think you are He will not reject you. That is just the way the One True Living God is. He abounds in loving-kindness.He doesn't like to punish us, He prefers for us to repent and let Him help us. Another way of looking at repentance is seeing with your heart that you are thirsty and need water, Living Water. 

Revelation 3:20King James Version (KJV)

20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 

Ezekiel 18:32New American Standard Bible (NASB)

32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord God. “Therefore, repent and live.”

Ezekiel 33:11New American Standard Bible (NASB)

11 Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord [a]God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die,...?’