One plus one is Wow...

Matthew 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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.” Jesus' answer was spot on - each of His opponents would agree that this first commandment was primary. What none of them every would have thought to do was connect the second to it. But both of them have another statement in their original form: "I am The Lord." Our love toward God and our love toward others is connected by Who He is. As King, the Messiah, Jesus is calling on us to join the two - something God has always had in mind. When we do this, we will understand what He has had in mind all along.