If anyone obeys His Word, God's love is truly made complete in Him.
- 1 John 2:5

We feel a sense of freedom when we say no to sin, our flesh's desires. It is a victory ever time we do!
Peter Kreeft wrote, "Since our highest freedom means freedom to be ourselves, we are most free when we are most obedient to God's will, which expresses His idea of us. Thus freedom and obedience coincide. To obey God is to be free in most radical sense: free from being false."
Joni Eareckson Tada adds to this. She says, "When you obey God in wholehearted devotion, you step closer to be: the real you, the you He predetermined before the foundation of the world. This means that when you obey God, in the process you discover who you who you are. You know yourself better than before. You become the more excellent you, and therefore you step into your destiny. What freedom! And it can happen to you today as your obey."
Here is a prayer she wrote too:
"Empower me to obey You today, Lord. It brings glory to You, and it brings me closer to my true self." Amen.