Dick Hyman is a newspaper feature columnist who writes humorously about laws that are still on the books but outrageously irrelevant.  For instance, did you know that in Waterloo, Nebraska, barbers are forbidden by law to eat onions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.?  In Kentucky, there is a state law that orders all citizens to take a bath at least once a year.

All these laws seem ridiculous to us now.  We laugh at them because it’s foolish to keep laws which have long outlived their usefulness.  But have you thought lately about that law which will never be outdated?   Jesus said it was the greatest law: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself.”

If we lived by this twin-pronged law of Jesus, we would not have to legislate in so many areas of life.