God’s Love Is Not a Response to Our Worth
And because it is not a response to our intrinsic value, it heightens his love, it frees his love. For then he is no longer obligated to love us, but he does it out of joy, from the infinitely deep well of his own goodness, as a reflection of his worth, and to the praise of his glory.
“If it be inquired, whence this compassion and delight in him should arise, what should be the cause of them, that he who was eternall blessed in his own self-sufficiency should so deeply concern himself in our lost, forlorn condition? I say it did so merely from the infinite love and goodness of his own nature, without the least procuring inducement from us or any thing in us.”
John Owen, The Glory of Christ, p.110
“…he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy” (Titus 3:5)
