Thomas Watson on Love to God
He who loves God, breathes after communion with him.
‘My soul thirsteth for the living God.’ Psa 42: 2. Persons in love desire to
be often conferring together...
he who loves God cannot find contentment in
any thing without him. Give a hypocrite who pretends to love God corn and
wine, and he can be content without God; but a soul fired with love to God,
cannot be without him...
he who loves God, hates that which would
separate between him and God, and that is sin...
Lovers grieve
together. If we have true love in our heart to God, we cannot but grieve for
those things which grieve him...
he who loves God, labours to render him
lovely to others. He not only admires God, but speaks in his praises, that
he may allure and draw others to be in love with him. She that is in love
will commend her lover. The lovesick spouse extols Christ, she makes a
panegyrical oration of his worth, that she might persuade others to be in
love with him...
he who loves God, weeps bitterly for his
absence. Mary comes weeping, ‘They have taken away my Lord.’ John 20: 13.
One cries, ‘My health is gone!’ another, ‘My estate is gone!’ but he who is
a lover of God, cries out, ‘My God is gone! I cannot enjoy him whom I
love.’ What can all worldly comforts do, when once God is absent?
he who loves God is willing to do and
suffer for him. He subscribes to God’s commands, he submits to his will. He
subscribes to his commands. If God bids him mortify sin, love his enemies,
be crucified to the world, he obeys.