So then, let us not attribute to God's actions and His dealings with us any idea of requital.

which is concerned with our good, and complete love. | If it is a case of love | then it is not one of requital | and if it is a case of requital | then it is not one of love. | Love, when it operates, is not concerned with the requiting of former things | by means of its own good deeds or correction | rather, it looks to what is most advantageous in the future | it examines what is to come, and not things that are past. | 39.17, p. 170