Fear and revere == pharisee thots

Loving Him comes first. The rest follows naturally from there. Christs words and deeds affirmed for 2,000 plus years as profoundly true.

Trying to put the cart before the horse, as the old saying goes, is not recommended.

I do recommend buying and reading this book, "The Orthodox Way" by Oxford scholar and convert to Orthodox (Non Western) Christianity, Ware.

It was my first huuuuge life transforming "red pill" read.