Acting according to God's Word

Ok, the first step in acting according to God's Word is , you go to know His word. How do you do that? Well, same way as you learn anything else, you go to read it, memeorize it, and make it part of your life style. Now I will admit that makeing God's Word part of your daily life is hard, but if we truly love the Lord, then we will do our best to do so. But when we do apply His Word to our life, are we doing it out of love or out of selfishness? We need to be making God part of our life not because we want to brag about it or be able to just say "Oh yeah I read God's Word" we need to do it because we love God and want to follow His comandments.