Galatians 5:14 says, “For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Now, that sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? But if you’ve ever had a neighbor who mows his yard at 6 a.m. on Saturday or lets his dog treat your yard like the city park, you know loving your neighbor ain’t always easy.

Lewis Grizzard once said, “The only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is.” And some folks’ lives look a lot like a yard sale—messy, scattered, maybe even a little broken. But that’s exactly why this verse matters.

Loving your neighbor doesn’t mean you have to be best friends or agree on everything. It just means you see them as God sees them—flawed, but worthy of grace. It means choosing kindness over criticism, patience over pettiness, and forgiveness over grudges.

Loving your neighbor is a way of loving God. It’s an act of worship. It’s seeing beyond the rough edges to the soul God created. It’s realizing that sometimes, the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.

So today, find a way to love your neighbor—yes, even the one who mows too early. It might just be the loudest sermon you’ll ever preach without saying a word.