text: Jesus himself said that the greatest commandment is to love God with ALL your heart, with ALL your soul and ALL your mind so you can learn to truly love your neighbor (2nd commandment) so if you want to change that divine sequence of a virtuous circle in order to justify your lifestyle then that's the choice you make.   And yes, love does not have to begin with obedience, but obedience to his teachings is part of loving God unless, again, you want to love God on your own terms instead of His terms.  
  
  Quoting C.S. Lewis,  “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."