Batter my heart, three-personed God by John Donne

The poem Batter my heart, three-personed God by John Donne is a poem about the speaker's struggle in his relationship with God. He discusses how God is trying to get the speaker to follow him, but the speaker is engaged with the Devil. The speaker makes an ironic comment when says he claims, "Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain" (line 9). The speaker is being pursued by God, and rather than accepting God, the speaker stays with the Devil. The speaker states that he wants a divorce from the Devil, yet the speaker wants God to do all of the work. This is ironic because the speaker is not trying or making an effort to follow God, and the speaker still states that they have love for God. The speaker wants to be taken by force from God, so that he does not have to put in the effort. Just like an actual relationship, I struggle to see the love the speaker has for God if the speaker is unwilling to put forth equal or more effort toward God.