"O, pity fore evermore that there should be such an one as Christ Jesus, so boundless, so bottomless, and so incomparable in infinite excellency, and sweetness, and so few to take him! O, ye poor dry and dead souls, why will ye come hither with your toom vessels and your empty souls to this huge, and fair, and deep, and sweet well of life, and fill all your toom vessels? O, that Christ should be so large in sweetness and worth, and we so narrow, pinched, so ebb, and so void of all happiness, and yet men will not take him! They lose their love miserably, who will not bestow it upon this lovely One." (The Lovliness of Christ by Samuel Rutherford)
There is a fine line between respecting who God made you and loving yourself to the point of idolatry. Thankfully, men like Rutherford are there to make the cloudy things clear and show us that to find oneself wrapped up in the majesty of God is find oneself supremely happy and fulfilled. This is certainly quite contrary to what modern theologians would put before the populace, and yet it is marvelously true.
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6)
This is how one gets saved. This is how one finds their true measure of happiness. This is how one is completely fulfilled, and how one is able to find what they were trusting in before to be all but rubbish in comparison.
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