There is no other commandment greater than these.' . . . Jesus had a way of cutting to the heart of an issue. And if we had been there to hear him that day, I am sure we would have heard him speaking with the passion of his own love for God and for the people around him. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Love is a verb.
It is what we do. And Jesus inseparably links doing love toward God with doing love toward our neighbors. Watch him move through the four Gospels, and you can see that love driving all that he does. We are his disciples, called by him to follow, to carry on his work, to do love toward God and our neighbors. The deeper we grow in our relationship with him, the stronger is our call to the mission he sets before us.