On these hangs all the Laws

Read Matthew 22

Then one of them, a lawyer asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

Jesus said to him, 

‘You shall love the LORD your God 

with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“This is the first and great commandment.

“And the second is like it,

 ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

“On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

                                                                                                                   Matthew 22:35-40
The greatest commandment:

‘You shall love the LORD your God 

with all your heart,

 with all your soul, 

and with all your mind.’

The second greatest commandment:

‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

We have two responsibilities in life: The first to God, the second to those around us.  We must have love for everyone in order to successfully take the gospel out.
The apostle Paul defined as love it said,

 “loves does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely,

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth,

Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails”.

                                 1 Corinthians 13:3-8a
This kind of love must be shown to God, to our neighbour and even our enemies.  Without it we are nothing.  The words of 1 Corinthians 13:1,2 make it clear:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love,

I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,

but have not love,

I am nothing.

Something to think about?
Love is a recurring theme throughout the Gospels. And we need to know it. The whole of Scripture is based on love. God’s love for us, our need to love God and to love our fellow man as ourselves.
  It is a concept most of us think we have but quite often don’t.
Love is never about us. Its about our relationship with others, be it God, our family or our fellow man.
True love means we will “Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” for both God and all people. That we may lead the people we come in contact with to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the living God.
Is your love that strong?