Gratitude and Obedience

The call to obey God's commandments is so urgent throughout the Bible because it is a call to gratitude, and it is really unthinkable that gratitude should not be the result of grace. Though a person may have freedom of choice in the prescence of idols, choosing whether to obey or not, we have no choice when God commands us. Obedience is the only possible response. Adrio Konig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology, p. 57