Do we follow a pattern of obeying the Lord's counsel?

The full reward of honor means that we develop a pattern in our life of obeying the Lord's counsel.  As children of God we can attain salvation and eternal life but miss out on experiencing the full reward of the Lord here on earth and in heaven, if we do not heed his counsel for our life.  How we walk this out is that we   develop a pattern of obeying what God has told us to do.  We think of the Israelites as an example of this when they were instructed to take the promised land.  They sent the spies into the land, as the Lord had instructed, and the majority of them came back and said it couldn't be done, except Joshua and Caleb.  The people had established a habit of complaining and being disobedient to the Lord.  The result of this practice of disobedience, is that when a life defining moment came up, they were ill prepared to do what God asked them to do.  It cost them the plan that God had for them.  They would not make it to the promised land.
They ended up dying out in the wilderness.  They had practiced disobedience so long, that when this life changing moment came up, they missed it.  It would prove to be irreversible.  It says in Numbers 14:26-30 (NKJV)  “26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”