Idolizing Mitzvos

לא תעשה לך פסל וכל תמונה, the Ten Commandments forbid us from making for ourselves idols or any picture. The Bais Yaakov of Ishbitz explains that at times people can idolize Mitzvos, they take the Mitzvah and begin to worship it, forgetting that the true purpose of the Mitzvah is as an act to assist oneself in developing a full relationship with God. They act instead as if the Mitzvah itself has a life and value of its own. The word פסל used here to mean an idol, literally means something chiseled out of stone. Don't give the Mitzvah a strength as strong as stone of its own. Stone, after all, is dead. By doing so, you are cutting it off from God.
But don't make pictures either. A picture is just a superficial semblance of something. Don't view the Mitzvos as being purely superficial with no substance to them. Don't think that you can connect to God without the actions necessary to forge that relationship. We need the actions, understood and done in the context of forging the relationship, in order for it to be fully developed.