are we only giving our excess or are we giving sacrificially
let me tell you a little story about love. so 3 of my teammates and i go and play volleyball/ soccer everyday here in india. through this repetition we started to make friends. 2 friends in particular, joseph and fima, and because we are getting to know them more and more, they started inviting us to movie nights and hang outs. through this, we became best friends. it just so happens that fima lives 3 houses down from us, such a blessing! so while hanging out with fima one night, his family invited my friends and i to dinner with them; we joyfully accepted. we got all dressed up and attended this family dinner. best meal in india that i have had hands down! so after dinner we are watching jackie chan and they bring out glasses of coke. really really cold delicious coke. and as they are passing it out, fimas brother in law continued telling us that fima had spent the whole day working, even fell off of the work truck holding bricks and was severely injured, so he could buy us this coke. a simple glass of soda that held the love of jesus in it. fima loved us so much that he would move 10,000 bricks and almost lose his life to get us this bottle of coke. even after that! he went into the kitchen and made us noodles to snack on while we watched tv. this friendship is so so sweet.
this really had me thinking about my life and how much i am willing to fully sacrifice for others. am i giving what i have in excess or am i giving what i hold close to my heart, sacrificially (like time, that favorite shirt, money, etc)? it’s times like this that make me step back and really think about how much we don’t need and how sacrificing anything we have is how we can serve like Jesus serves. this lit a lil fire inside me to sacrifice for the people around me, because of jesus’ crucifixion type love, we can love hard. not just the ooshy gooshy love but the real and all in love. why not love with a crucifixion type love? i mean, we’re called to live like He did right…?
