God calls us to live well before Him only after God has provided for us. This is a constant rhythm. Only after giving life and provision and promise, all sorts of blessings, does God encounter the man and the woman in Gen 1 with a mandate and a calling or vocation. Only after freeing Israel from bondage in Egypt does God, atop Sinai, give them a law commanding them, demanding certain behavior from them. And even there in the Ten Commandments, of course, it is prompted by, it is headed by the statement,