God Is Love...But Love Is Not God Pt. 2

I wrote a post on Monday which I promised a follow-up to. However, due to finals and such I've been busy and haven't been able to write it. I did, however, change my mind on what I would write. I figure that there are plenty of people out there talking about the need to love one another, and rightfully so. Therefore, I won't spend much time on that. I will say this, though; Jesus said 'If you love Me you will keep my commandments (Jn. 14:15). Jesus said to love your neighbor, and to pray for those who persecute you. Furthermore, 1 John 3:10 says 'By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother (italics added). So there's biblical incentive to love people.
My main focus, however, is on the 'God is love part', and more specifically on a kind of love often left out in people's understanding--God's love of Himself.
As I have said before, God's highest aim must be Himself. C.H Spurgeon said this:

"God’s great design in all His works is the manifestation of His own glory. Any aim less than this were unworthy of Himself. He cannot act for the good of His creatures as an ultimate aim, for that were for God to be impelled by a motive less great than His own nature. Since there can be nothing greater than the infinite, and there can be but one infinite—if the infinite God be moved by an infinite motive which is the only one worthy of Him, that motive must be found in His own glory."
God Himself is the ONLY one truly worthy of love. If God is just, then He must indeed direct His love to that which is deserving of it. God is the only one worthy of His own love. Therefore He loves Himself, and is perfectly right to do so, because it is in line completely with His character. If He were not perfect, then loving Himself would be wrong and merely selfish; however because He is indeed perfect then His love of Himself is completely warranted, and must then be expressed.
Sometimes (actually oftentimes) I fear most of us forget about God's love of Himself. We confine Him to being the cosmic butler, just sitting up in Heaven waiting to help out anyone who wants it, and hoping desperately (and in many ways powerlessly) that people would come and ask Him for help. We get this idea in our heads that God revolves around us. This just goes to show how self-centered we are, because we love ourselves, because I love myself, so much that we assume that God must likewise be centered around us. How stupid! To think that the God of the universe, who called it into existence and could likewise call it out, would put all of His time and effort into giving us what we want for ourselves, this idea is the ultimate in vanity.
However, the amazing thing is that His highest aim and our highest good is the same thing: His glory. God desires first and foremost to be glorified, and to glorify God is the end for which man was made. Therefore, when God saves a sinner, He is being glorified while at the same time fulfilling that sinner's purpose in existence. To say that God is all about us, or that we our His main priority, this is incorrect. Humanitarianism is essentially the promotion of human welfare, and so by a human way of thinking then God would not be a humanitarian, because when we think 'human welfare' we think a nice home, good friends, lots of money and a nice car--a life of luxury and independence. However, because human welfare in the truest sense is to glorify God, then God's act of electing, saving, and preserving people is the ultimate and actually only truly humanitarian action. And the beauty of it is that that is exactly how God ordained it.