On Loving God

I read this last night for Church History:

"Who would dream of offering a man a reward for doing something he wants to do?...How much more the soul that loves God seeks no other reward than that God whom it loves. Were the soul to demand anything else, then it would certainly love that other thing and not God....[Jesus] gave himself to merit for us; he keeps himself to be our reward; he serves himself as food for holy souls; he sold himself in ransom for captive souls. O Lord, you are so good to the soul who seeks you, what must you be to the one who finds you?...Who confesses the Lord, not because he is good to him but because the Lord is good, truly loves God for God's sake and not for his own benefit." - 12th century abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, excerpted from his treatise, "On Loving God."

I wanted to share this quote today because 1) it's incredible and I need to think it through, and 2) I think it applies to how I am called by Jesus to live...and vote.