I do not love sacrificially.  I’d like to think I do.  But every once in a while, it hits me how far I am from doing that.  Recently, Jesus, by his grace and shepherd’s staff (Psalm 23), revealed that in me.  I am learning to rejoice when Jesus shows me my failings in part because it helps me better understand his perfection and worship him more deeply.

I praise you that I am free not to please myself but to love, and I pray for your help to love better and more, and – I confess I hesitate even to pray this – more freely and more sacrificially.       

But how beautiful to just even have my toe at the edge of your ocean of sacrificial love, in my own failings and lack of love to have a teeny glimpse of how fully you lived a sacrificial love.

Lord Jesus, please help me wade into that ocean today.