Loving and Obeying God

Love can mean a lot of different things depending on who you talk to. Fortunately God is pretty explicit on the topic. According to him, love is not an emotion but an action. 1 John 5:3 states-

"In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome."

OK so I feel like the bible has a lot of different commands. And are we really expected to keep all of them? Sounds a little daunting. And how am I supposed to remember all of them? Hebrews 10:16 says:

"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

So does this mean we just need to follow our conscience? If we believe that Jesus is the son of god, then we have the holy spirit who leads us into all truths. But I know at times I've felt things that I thought were of God, but found out later they couldn't have been because they opposed different parts of scripture. So to be sure I would recommend to always go to the word when trying to discern what is right. And talk to people about it. The more you do this and attempt to abide in Christ, the better you will become- its like exercise! So start small, and be persistent.
C.S. Lewis comments on this in his book Screwtape Letters. If you are unfamiliar with the book, the premise is one demon advising a younger demon on ways to tempt its human patient. The older demon writing to the younger demon (Wormwood) says the following:

“My dear Wormwood, the most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life, but only a hope for the daily and hourly pittance to meet the daily and hourly temptation! This is very bad.”

God says it in a different way in Matthew 6:34-

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Each day we are faced with enough sin that we should just concentrate on overcoming what we are currently facing. And you can do this by trusting in God, who will guide us from temptation and set us free from sin. He will give us the power to obey. And that's the purpose of Jesus going through agonizing pain via the crucifixion, right? Not just to wipe away our sins and give us salvation, but to purify us and allow us to live free from sin! God has given us the power to overcome sin, we just have to choose to obey. We have to choose to love God.