Sacrifice & Love

If we are to make any progress, if we are to grow up at all, if we are to become what God has created us to be, we must learn to sacrifice. Sacrifice is the mark of the one who is mature. Personal sacrifice is the characteristic of the soul that has learned that exaltation of self is death.

Sacrifice is the nature of love. There must be a willingness for a person to sacrifice self for the welfare of another if love is to be manifested. Feelings alone are insufficient. Intentions alone are shallow. Desire only goes so far. Apart from sacrifice there is no real love. Apart from sacrifice there is no maturity.

Love - genuine care and concern for the true welfare of another with a resolute committment to giving up anything and everything that might hinder that committment - is the hallmark of maturity, of perfection, of true godliness.

Look at Jesus.