We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us. That’s His nature.
Thomas Watson

Believers are personally guilty, but by virtue of the satisfaction of this sacrifice imputed to them, they are judiciously counted innocent. Christ, who never sinned, is put in a state as if He had; and we, who have always sinned, are put into a state by Him as if we never had. As we are made righteous in Him, so He was made sin for us.
Stephen Charnock