The desire to follow in the ways of the Lord and to keep His commandments is a divinely implanted impulse. God’s Holy Spirit is constantly at work, guiding men into pathways of truth and obedience. The closer a man draws to the Lord, the more fully he forsakes the sinful things of earth, and the more ready he is to do all that God requires. The Spirit of God leads men to obey and inclines them to keep the commands of the law, but it does not do this against man’s will. When men are willing to obey they become inclined to obey. The closer a man draws to the Lord, the more fully do God’s thoughts become his thoughts, and God’s ways his ways. When man comes to the Lord with humbleness of spirit and willingness of heart, desirous of learning His ways and of walking therein (Ps. 119:26, 27, 30, 32-36), he begins to find obedience to God to be a matter of pleasure rather than duty and the law of God to be a law of liberty (Ps. 119:45, 47, 97; James 1:25; James 2:12), rather than a yoke.