Keeping Jesus’s commands is essential. We emphasize his forgiveness to the point that obeying him doesn’t seem that important. It is like obeying His commandments or disobeying them doesn’t make that much difference. It makes a lot of difference. 

Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

Many people break the commandment in Philippians 4:6, “Be anxious for nothing.” In Psalms 37:8, it says, “Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.” Fretting is when we let a little fear become a big fear because we allow it to go around and around in our brains. Most don’t consider that a commandment because it is in our heads, and no one knows, and it doesn’t hurt anyone but ourselves. As the verse says, fretting leads to evil-doing, even if it is just being grumpy. When a little fear pops up in my head, I replace it with, “Do not fret!” If it continues to pop up in my thinking, I keep kicking it out by thinking, sometimes even saying out loud, “ Do no fret!” The cool thing about choosing to obey is that God gives us the power to succeed. The rest of Philippians 4:6-7 says,”Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” So, when an anxious thought pops into my head I replace it with, “Do not fret,” and then I pray about what was bugging me, and before long I have an amazing peace and freedom from fretting. It is a wonderful gift from God if we would do it. I think some people just enjoy fretting.