lately i've been pondering the meaning of love, sacrificial love, that is. in the context of marriage and romance, often you hear people saying they're "looking for love," or wanting to "find love." i have to say, i get what they are meaning. but in reality, looking for someone to spend your life with, #1 just happens most often when you're not looking, and #2 love is an act of the will, a choice, to treat someone better than yourself. so in the framework of marriage, it's about dying to self, and looking to the betterment of your spouse. but that's not just for marriage, it's for parenting love, and every other type of love. most often though, when i'm recognizing that i'm sacrificing for someone else, it's the recognition of it that sort of takes away from the love offering for that person. it's when i'm least aware of my giving of self, and someone points it out to me, that i go, "Wow!" i am giving...i do love! something similar happened to me this week and it blessed me and encouraged me, not in the "pat on the back" sort of way, but it amazed me and awakened me to just how blessed the Christian life really is, that we get to unknowingly bless others, love others, serve, not for performance, but out of sincerity because we are full of the knowledge of Christ, and complete in Him. it's truly empowering and inspiring to me.
Dear Sadie.
"From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another." John 1:16
"and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:19
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