Ceasing

 While in this earthly realm, HE never said that our troubles would permanently cease. Yet when, we do what HE tells us that we should do without ceasing. We enjoy a lifting of our burdens and an easing of troubles for a time.

[1Sa 12:23 KJV] 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

[Act 12:5 KJV] 5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

[Rom 1:9 KJV] 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

[1Th 1:3 KJV] 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

[1Th 2:13 KJV] 13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received [it] not [as] the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

[1Th 5:17 KJV] 17 Pray without ceasing.

[2Ti 1:3 KJV] 3 I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

Although, these are not part of the Law. [1Th 5:17 KJV] can be seen as a commandment given by an apostle in the New Testament. One which is based on Old Testament teachings, [1Sa 12:23 KJV].

Obedience

Scripture is filled with many themes. One of the most common is the cycle of disobedience and reconciliation. And, it goes without saying that a moment of chastisement always arises between disobedience and reconciliation. For, if we are not chastised, we are not sons.

[Heb 12:8 KJV] 8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

[Isa 53:5 KJV] 5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

[Job 34:31 KJV] 31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [anymore]:

It is those chastisements which are medicine that heals the spirit and soul. So, we like Job shall say, "I will not offend anymore."

For, if we could disobey without correction, we would be like an unpruned shrub, natural and unrefined.

[1Co 2:14 KJV] 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

As the "natural and unrefined" man, we would be disconnected from the Spirit. Obeying HIM would seem strange, foreign, and foolish for us. 

Obedience brings life and brings it more abundantly. When we obey, we avoid trouble and pitfalls.