Love your neighbor as yourself

Matthew 22:35-39 (NIV) 35  One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36  "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37  Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38  This is the first and greatest commandment. 39  And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  

Do you realise that the expert of the law asked for the greatest commandment? Yet Jesus gave also the second greatest commandment.  When He was not asked for it?  Why?  Because both are inter-related.  The first without the second is incomplete.  The second without the first loses its bearings.  

For the way we relate with God affects the way we relate with others.  The quality of our relationship with God determines the quality of our relationship with others.  Why?  It is like a compass of our lives.  A compass must be calibrated so that it points to true north.  Once that is accurate, the rest of the directions on the compass will be accurate.  But if a compass does not get its true north correct, every other direction will be misaligned.