January 14
	Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
	Matthew 22:37-39
The phrase ‘like unto it’ means ‘linked to it’. In other words, the first and second commandments are inextricably linked together. The problem is, most of us separate the two because we have a ‘TV Dinner spirituality’ ... TV dinners have the entrée, peas, mashed potatoes, and the cherry dessert all in separate compartments. And that’s just what we do spiritually. ‘Oh, yes, I love God,’ we say. ‘I’m going to worship Sunday night.’ But on Monday we call our boss an idiot behind his back and on Wednesday we complain about how our neighbor idles his car too early in the morning Yet Sunday finds us worshipping the Lord once again. We compartmentalize our lives, thinking that how we treat people has nothing to do with our relationship with God. Jesus says our walk with God is not a TV Dinner. Rather, if we really love God, we will inevitably love people and our walk will resemble not a TV Dinner, but a Chicken Pot Pie. No longer compartmentalized, the peas, potatoes, and chicken will all be mixed together. Truly, if our love for God is genuine, it cannot help but flow into a love for people.