Love
is attachment to an object on account of its goodness. God is the
greatest Good, and as such worthy of man's best love. This Good is
limited neither by person, time, nor space.
He
is self -existent, eternal by nature, and infinite in perfection. He is
so excellent that no one outside of God can love Him adequately.
This
infinite Good is, besides, the author of every created good. If life,
health, friends, and earthly possessions are worthy of man's love, how
much more should we form an attachment to God as soon as we learn that
He is the eternal, uncreated Good?
God
has also been very good to man by extending to him the countless
blessings of creation, redemption, and sanctification. He has loved us
individually with an everlasting love. He provides for us and watches
over us with greater solicitude than the fondest mother ever manifested
toward her child. Christ the Lord loved us to that extent that He
sacrificed the last drop of His sacred blood for our sake. Wherefore St.
John says: '' He loved us to the end " (John xiii, 1). In creating us
God fashioned our hearts in such a way that we necessarily love what is
good. Will we then be so foolish, so ungrateful, so disobedient as not
to love Him, the infinite Good ? He commands us to love Him. “My son,''
He says, “give Me thy heart" (Prov, xxiii. 26). “Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy
whole mind. This is the greatest and first commandment" (Matt xxii.
37-38).
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