We all make deals with God. If you save me from this situation then i will do this and that. I give you this and you will make me a better christian. But that is not the real God. God did not determine to open our eyes because He saw something that we could do for Him. Do you know that God never made a deal with any one? He saved some men and saw that they needed to be carried. Thats why He is the great Shepard. Because He carries us from one wandering place to another.
The only reason that people think to be moral is to make deals and keep them is because they think that it will satisfy their sense of equality. The truth is that no man can determine what is equal. Taint one man that has ever been satisfied with the returns on his deal! Because the universe is not a real image of true worth. Thats why love is unattainable by works. Because once you make a demand on being loved then you must love perfectly. Because love can only be love when it has no standards to love. It loves from a realistic view of eternal love. This is why love is communicated because it is condescending.
In other words there is only one love that is true. It is eternal and comes into time. It comes from a source that is love. If God is love then love is God. God loves because He is love not because He sees something to love. God loves out of total freedom to love. If a person was to have a life where he received a communication of love it would be from God without any requirements. It would be a full expression of all that comes in feeling worthy in always being loved no matter what. This is why these ideas that we are getting from St Thomas and Austin... are so important. Now i give you something to think about here. Look what the apostle says about Gods work. Some mind twisting concepts to ponder.
Romans 11
35"Who has ever given to God,
      that God should repay him?"[k]
 36For from him and through him and to him are all things.
      To him be the glory forever! Amen.