LOVE OF GOD in its essence is..

LOVING GOD IS IN ITS ESSENCE is

DESIRING GOD HIMSELF beyond His Gifts
TREASURING GOD beyond His Gifts
DELIGHTING IN GOD beyond His Gifts
BEING SATISFIED WITH GOD beyond His Gifts
CHERISHING GOD beyond His Gifts
SAVOURING GOD beyond His Gifts
VALUING GOD beyond His Gifts
PRICING GOD beyond His Gifts
REVERING GOD beyond is Gifts
ADMIRING GOD beyond His Gifts

BEHOLD THE LION AND THE LAMB OF GOD... IN HIS POWER AND MAJESTY..
JESUS = LOVE


....the essence of the love of God is not the fruit of the love of God....
love of God is the heart esteem and the delight for Him before it produces anything..
it is not in Its essence a deliberate choice nor a deed..
it is a reflect of a newborn heart - the called heart to the beauty of God in Christ..
it is life that produces the love of God...

John Piper