Kierkegaard coaxes and entices the reader to see that we were created with an inherent desire for God’s kind of love, and that we can only find ultimate happiness through participating in that love. It is thus the life of godly neighbor love that must be presented as the object to be desired, and longing for that life must be elicited. In short, without announcing itself as such, Works of Love is an enactment of desire for the kind of love that God essentially is.
