To properly understand what the Ribbono shel Olam expects of us, let us elaborate a bit. There’s a principle in avodas Hashem that we can learn how to succeed spiritually from the workings of the yetzer hara. The Beis Aharon cites in a number of places the concept of כי ממנו נקח לעבוד את ה', from him we can take [learn] how to serve Hashem.
Indeed, when it comes to matters of materiality and גשמיות, there’s an idea of a deep connection to what we pursue. People don’t just do things... they don’t just pursue pleasure—they’re connected to it, and their mind returns to it constantly. Indeed, the Rambam has already written that we must use this as an example for our avodas Hashem. “If you want to know how to love Hashem,” says the Rambam, “look at how people pursue the pleasures of this world.... They’re obsessed. That’s all they can think about.”
If we tell a person to love Hashem the way great tzaddikim love Hashem, they won’t understand what we want from them. But if we tell him to look at the “other side” to see how those people operate, he will see that every time they’re idle or bored, their mind immediately turns to their obsession with pleasure. This is how our love for Hashem must be.
