“To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself' is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” (Mark 12:33) Samuel the prophet condemned King Saul and expressed the importance of obedience to the Lord: “The Lord sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.' Why then have you disobeyed the LORD? You have pounced on the spoil, thus displeasing the LORD." Saul answered Samuel: "I did indeed obey the LORD and fulfill the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought back Agag, and I have destroyed Amalek under the ban. But from the spoil the men took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the LORD their God in Gilgal." But Samuel said: "Does the LORD so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams. For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler."” (1 Samuel 15:18-23) Saul tried to explain but God did not accept his explanation as God looks at people’s hearts. It may seem fair and reasonable from appearance but it might not be appreciated by God. Love is the same. If the act of love is only done for the praise and recognition from others rather than for their benefit, it has no value at all in front of Jesus. When we are living out the holy will of the Father as the main goal, naturally we will care about our neighbor. Otherwise, we will fall into the trap of self-centeredness. To love God and our neighbor need to complement each other but to love God is still the foundation of all.