Obedience

I think it ultimately comes down to obedience. Can you define your own existence, your own morality? Are you a God who goes to the gym and keeps to his diet and loves his neighbor whenever He decrees? Or are you a weak sinful delusional creature who only imagines himself to be devine? You came from dust, not by your own doing, and to dust your mortal body, which you had nothing to do with creating, shall return. It is the Creator whose love gives, and patiently, lovingly, sustains your life. It is obedience to Him that gives you strength and courage, and fulfills His promise of eternal life, in the unforeseeable future, and now. It is pride (the sin of) that seduces you into thinking otherwise. It is prayer to His Son that reconciles you to Him.