A few scriptures on obedience

I'm applying what I learned in primary yesterday to study just a few scriptures, or just one verse, at a time and try to get as much as I can out of it.

"Keep the Commandments, in this there is safety, in this there is peace." Safety and peace. It's got to be true.

Mosiah 2:22 "All that he requires of you is to keep His commandments." It's true, huh!

What commandments do I have trouble keeping? 

• Having charity for others (Moroni 7:45: "suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things..."). I don't suffer long with some people. I rejoice in the iniquity of talking bad about them and of telling other people, like girlfriends, things they do that annoy me. Crystal, the Potters, Jordan, a few others I can't think of especially. When I am with them, I feel love. It's the image in my mind, the version of them I have created that I don't like. But when I'm with Crystal or the Potters, I feel love for them, and it's easier for me to treat them well. The emotion is the one that I need to cultivate all the time. These are my biggest sins: speaking and feeling poorly about others, being easily provoked, thinking evil of them, rejoiceth in iniquity, bearing all things. I need to bear all things better, realize people aren't perfect, realize that my talking badly about them results in distance from the Spirit and from Heavenly Father. This is a commandment I can keep better. 
• Watching my thoughts, words, deeds (Mosiah 4:30). Sometimes my words don't reflect how I actually feel about things. I say unkind things about other people, or I joke about sacred things.

The verse that I'm dissecting today (Mosiah 2:22) mentions that Heavenly Father never varies from what He says. Why, then, do I need to vary? Why do I sometimes want to keep the commandment, then other times don't? 

The footnote on "keep" leads to several other scriptures that say the same thing, the same formula: keep the commandments and you will prosper, be safe. There are so many promises for us when we keep the commandments. We are safe in the box. We are protected from harm, temptation, falling, eternal sadness, punishment, eternal confusion. 

On the second "keep" (it's interesting that the two different "keeps" have different footnotes), the footnote leads to Psalms 19:9-11: The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgmentsof the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10  More to be desired are theythan gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11  Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keepingof them there is great reward.

Pretty cool. Pretty vivid imagery. His judgments are more to be desired than gold; they are sweeter than honey. Keeping His commandments yields rewards greater than gold and sweeter than honey.