![]() Love wants the best for the loved one and works to deliver it. Love feels poor when the loved one is poor. Love is excited at the prospect of alleviating burdens and meeting needs. Love is motivated by the interests and needs of others. Love always has the good of another in view. Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another. Love again and again calls you away from your instincts and your comfort. Love calls you to stop when you really want to continue, and it calls you to continue when you feel like stopping. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. ![]() Love calls you to serve, to wait, to give, to suffer, to forgive, and to do all these things again and again. Love calls you to lay down your life in ways that are concrete and specific. ![]() ![]() Love calls you to be willing to invest time, energy, money, resources, personal ability, and gifts for the good of another. Love calls you beyond the borders of your own wants, needs, and feelings. There is no such thing as love without sacrifice. If you are forcing someone to love, by the very nature of the act you are demonstrating that this person doesn’t in fact love. The decisions, words, and actions of love always grow in the soil of a willing heart. Jesus said, “No one takes from me, but I lay it down of my own accord” (John 10:18). ![]()
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