There are those who in a desperate eagerness to hide or justify their manifest weaknesses, considerably change or distort the meaning of the Holy nature of God; affirming, that because He is so good and perfect, He will not judge or condemn them. One thing is the expression of His eternal substance, which is Love, and quite another is their concept of the malice and conceit with which His immutable precepts may be violated.

He knows the thoughts and intentions of our hearts when we act; and with much anticipation, He knew where we want to go, with the purposes we have set for ourselves.

Simply and emphatically, He has self-love, He takes care of His own and His own.

John 2:24-25 NKJV

24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, 25 and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.

Romans 11:22 NKJV

22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 2:6-9 NKJV

6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;