If you don’t love God…

If you don’t love God, and you can’t do anybody any ultimate good. You can feed them clothe them and house them and keep them comfortable while they perish. But in God’s mind, that by itself is not what love is. Love does feed and clothe and house—and keeps the commandments that include helping others know and love God in Christ. But if you don’t love God, you can’t do that. So if you don’t love God, if you can’t love people in the way that counts for eternity. (John Piper, Finally Alive, pp. 135-136)