God to Be Loved for Himself.

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Love should always be the life of action. That man loves fervently, who is influenced by the love of Christ. That man's actions will be right—if Christ is the object that he loves. A gracious man loves the Lord, not because He does good to him—but because He is good in and of Himself. I will esteem that man's affection as saving—who loves God on account of his inherent goodness, for God is love. That man who loves Christ for Himself, though you take away all other alluring objects—yet there is strength enough in that love—to move and constrain the soul.

O blessed be that saint, Lord, who is so influenced with your love, that he can truly say, "Were there neither heaven nor hell—yet sin should be my hell, and holiness my heaven."

"Whom do I have in heaven but You? And I desire nothing on earth but You!" Psalms 73:25