Conditions will never be perfect.
The human "way" is to delay a bit and generate reasons why we shouldn't resemble Jesus Christ in this moment or that moment. 

We seek Him first, intimately, ever more closely, and we will have all these other things. He told us this. 

Humans are very inventive and prone to generate reasons for not loving.  "It's not safe yet" "I don't have time to pray" "I will come to God when the church fixes itself, changes this or that".

"I will love my wife heroically when she starts loving me".

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If we are not directly dealing and talking with God..we're not being intimate with Him.