When we read, in Matthew 22:36-40, about our Lord being questioned by the Pharisees as to which is the greatest commandment in the law, He answers, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. Everything in the Law and the prophets hangs on these two commandments.”

So, Christ is telling us, that if all God’s laws had to be summarized and if He had only one commandment, it would be this: that we are to love God and each

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