Scripture
Matthew 22:37-40 – And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Observation –
A Pharisee, who was a lawyer asked Jesus what the greatest commandment in the Law was to try and test Jesus. Jesus tells the lawyer, first we are to love God with our entire being. Our love for God is not just intellectual but heart, soul and mind. The second great commandment which is like the first is love your neighbor as yourself.
Now who doesn’t love themselves, that is how we should love and treat others. Everything else, all the Law on Prophets hinges on Loving God and loving others.

Application-
1John 4:19 says, We love because he loved first. God loved us so much that he sent Jesus to die for us while we were still sinners. My response is to love God with everything I have before anything else. I can intellectually know God, but he wants my heart and soul to love Him. Out of my love for God, I want know Him and walk closer to Him. I need to have eyes open as God sees and a heart broken with compassion for those who are hurting and lost. When I love God as He loves me, I will so love my neighbors here and around the world. This is the gospel, love God, love your neighbors.

Prayer –
Father,
Thank you for loving me so much that you sent Jesus to pay for my sin debt in full so I can repent be reconciled and have a relationship with you. Let the power of the Holy Spirit lead and guide me to love my neighbors a you love me to glorify you.