sacrificial LOVE.

What is sacrificial love? How often do we actually exemplify this kind of love? How often are we willing to lay our love down - even though we know that it could be despised? How often do we love like Jesus does? Are we willing to be soft yet tough, tender yet purposeful, weak yet strong? Are we willing to let God be everything in us, though it costs us everything? Are we willing to let go of our perceptions, paradigms, conditions, expectations and fears: to be the kind of love we were meant to be... to walk it out in surrender, humility and sacrifice? Do we want to be this kind of love.. even if it means we're misunderstood, despised or mistreated?

To sacrifice means:

the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.

the thing so surrendered or devoted.

a loss incurred in selling something below its value

to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.

What is Love anyways?

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-13