Amar = Sacrificar

To love is to sacrifice.

Love is sacrifice.

The Beatles said, “All you need is love.”

Love is what we all want. The kind of love where someone will give up whatever they are doing and what they want for you. That soul-deep, self-sacrificing love.

Everyone wants to be loved that way. To feel important, like we matter to someone. So important that someone would give up anything just to give us what we need.

What would people say if they found out that someone already did this for them? Someone gave up their dreams, their rights, their desires to give them exactly what they needed and wanted.

You see, God has already done this… for you. God committed the ultimate act of love in coming to earth as his Son, Jesus, and dying a shameful death on the cross for crimes and sins that He did not commit. We did. He paid the penalty for us, so that we wouldn’t have to and so that we would have to opportunity to experience the LOVE that satisfies. So that we would have the opportunity to love God and not just perish in our lust, lies, debauchery, envy, rage, slander, impurity, guilt, hate, vengeance, drunkenness, gluttony, malice, slander… Without God’s self-sacrifice, we would be dead in our lives here on earth and that would only continue after our physical death here. But because of this sacrificial love that we all crave, we have the opportunity to experience REAL love, REAL life…

 

Accepting this sacrificial love requires that kind of love in return, but that’s for another time.

The Beatle’s sang, “All you need is love.”

Yes, that is all you need. God’s unending, relentless, reckless, sacrificial love.