When Jesus is asked for the Great Commandment, as told in several of the Gospels, the answer is to "Love your God above all others." This echoes the Old Testament teachings of the Hebrew Bible in Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.) and Leviticus 19:18 (You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.). But Jesus goes beyond the question and gives a second commandment, often called the Golden Rule, to love your neighbor as yourself [not one more than the other].
But what is meant by "love" - since the term in English is all purpose for anything from cherished relationship to food cravings to patriotism.
In the Greek language of the New Testament and the wider Mediterranean life of Greek thinkers and leaders, there were 8 distinct categories of love. So maybe "Love your God above all others" fits into one or more of those categories. Another approach is to look for clues and overtones of the Hebrew term by considering related words and ideas, the roots of the word "to love," https://biblehub.com/text/deuteronomy/6-5.htm
A third approach is to substitute "truth, beauty, and life" for loving one's God. Where these may be seen and experienced, there, too, is God. Related is the phrase that "I am the way, the truth, and the life" [John 14:6]. So by saying, "God is Love," in effect that is saying "Loving your God involves truth, life, beauty, and the way [that does not stray from the narrow, righteous path]"
By extension, then, perhaps the hunger for beauty and wonder, order/right-alignment is one way to engage that love in relationship to God. And the saying that "Fear of God [awe filled] is the beginning of wisdom" can thus be restated as "the awe in love [what God is] is the awe of truth and beauty and life itself [what love is]."
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