love is a rediscovery of our self

God does not desire that we become anything other than the true self which God has loved from all eternity.

To be in love is to be in the divine presence of God, it is to be taken over by His Spirit.

Thomas Merton understood this inscrutable mystery by saying "our discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us." Our lives and God's life are so intertwined that loving God is God loving God's own self in us. So God does not desire that we become anything other than the true self which God has loved from all eternity.

1 Corinthians 3:16 "Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?"