Greatest Commandment

In Sunday school today, we talked about Deuteronomy 6.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Verse 5

Compare that to what Jesus said:

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 greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’ Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus was a Jew, and I imagine he was reminding the Pharisee of what he already should have known -- as he reminds us.

As I was listening to Jenny teach today, I was thinking that both Testaments of the Bible have a strong statement of our purpose -- the Greatest Commandment. Love. It seems to me that we have been instructed to look at everything through that commandment.

Compassion ... love ... comes first. It should overshadow everything else, and we should be looking at the rest of the Bible knowing that our God is a God of love. We should interpret everything knowing that.