Sacrifices – Day 28 of the Love Dare

Sacrifices – Day 28 of the Love Dare.  Do what you can, whether it be big or small, and propose to help your spouse with one of their greatest needs.

Day 28 – Love Makes Sacrifices

“He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers” ~ 1 John 3:16

THE DARE – What is one of the greatest needs in your spouses life right now? Is there a need you could lift from their shoulders today by a daring act of sacrifice on your part? Whether the need is big or small, proposed to do what you can to meet the need.

Life can be hard. We are the first to feel it when we are the ones being mistreated or inconvenienced. We are quick to sulk when we are the ones who feel deprived or unappreciated. And too often, the only way we notice that life is hard for our mate is when they start complaining about it. Then instead of genuinely caring or rushing in to help, we might think they just have a bad attitude.

This doesn’t happen when love is at work. Love sees the weight beginning to pile up and steps in to help. That’s because love invites you to be sensitive to your spouse.

Love makes you sensitive to your spouse’s needs and doing what you can to satisfy it

Love make sacrifices. It keeps you so tuned in to what your spouse needs that you often respond without being asked.

Even when your mates stress comes out in words of personal accusations, love shows compassion rather than becoming defensive. Jesus taught us that the evidence of love is found in seeing a need in others, then doing all we can to satisfy it.

These are the types of needs you should be looking for in your wife or husband:

• Is he hungry – needing you sexually even when you don’t feel like it?
• Is she thirsty – craving the time and attention you seem able to give to everyone else?
• Does he feel like a stranger – insecure in his work, needing home to be a refuge and sanctuary?
• Is she naked – frightened or ashamed, desperate for the warm covering of your loving affirmation?
• Is he feeling sick – physically tired and needing you to help guard him from interruptions?
• Does she feel in prison – fearful and depressed, needing some safety and intervention?

Love calls you to set aside your own needs to help your spouse

Love is willing to make sacrifices to see that the needs of your spouse are given your very best effort and focus. Love calls you to set aside what seems so essential in your own life to help rescue them, even if it’s merely the gift of a listening ear. They need to see in your two attentive eyes that you truly care about what this is costing them, and you’re serious about helping them seek answers.