The Essence of Love..
The nature of God is love..... God loves each one of us perfectly and infinitely...,,unconditionally...He loves us even if we decide never to love Him.... or do not know Him, acknowledge Him....and that is only one side of the equation. The other side is what is the essence of loving God in return?... Do we or can we love Him in the degree He loves us?.....Are our hearts burning to love Him?.... Are we yearning to be with Him?..... talk with Him?...... listen to Him?.......(all the things lovers do for each other?).....Loving Him despite whatever happens in life and death?....even when He does not seem to answer any of your prayers?....love Him even if you never felt His presence?  love Him through thick and thin?
The essence of loving God is not mainly to get answers to our prayers..... to be become rich...... or healed of an illness....etc. but when we move from what is tangible or visible to our senses...... we can find meaning in loving God for who He is. We can try to love Him because he loved us first..... in loving Him we can develop trust in Him, we can be drawn into Him ..... stay close to Him......depend on Him..... allow Him to lead us.
Love was the purchased price..... His Precious Blood shed on the Cross..... for each one........ We can find meaning in loving Him if we understand  what it cost Him to love us even to the Cross to set us free and restore us to God's friendship
Scripture puts it clearly: "The love of Christ impels us who have reached the conviction that since One died for all, all died. He died for all so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who for their sakes died and was raised up"