What motivates you? Are extrinsically or intrinsically motivated?
For God, it has always been about love. Though He gave rewards for obedience and negative consequences for disregard of the law, His first desire was that we love Him with our hearts, souls, and bodies.
The rewards and punishments can get us on a good path, but mature people do right because they grow in loving God, self, and others.
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Love and the Law
Paul Looney, MD • Deuteronomy 6:4–6
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