Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a love that he would not stop in heaven without you; he would sooner die than you should perish, and he cannot endure that anything should stand between your heart’s love and himself.
— Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Morning of September 12
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
— Romans 5:8