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In a certain train wreck, the engineer, who could have saved his life by jumping, stuck to his post and thereby saved the passengers but lost his own life.  They erected a monument, not to the train, for it did only what its machinery forced it to do, but to the engineer, who, of his own volition, chose to give his life, to save the passengers.  What virtue is there in obeying God, if, in our nature there is no inclination to do otherwise?  But if, of our own choice, and against the steady urge of our nature, we obey God, there is character in that.

Halley’s Bible Handbook, Henry H. Halley, page 67