When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He 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 greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:34-40
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind as he is loving and compassionate to us as sinners and offers us life everlasting by the grace he bestows on us for our belief that Christ died for our sins. God commands us to magnify and glorify Him through our thoughts and actions as we pray for God’s mercy and forgiveness and love God for who he is.