Today's dare is a challenge to the many who read through this book, desperate to save their marriages, but not knowing Jesus Christ personally.
The points we have considered have challenged our thinking about ourselves, about life, about our partners, about the balance of responsibility, about many things. The author brought us to see (yesterday) that we cannot hope as humans to ever truly love unconditionally for all our lives. We are not capable. It is humanly impossible. Only God can love like that. Only God can equip us to love in that way.
This leads into today's dare. The challenge is extended to those who are doing it without God in their lives: accept the Lord Jesus Christ into your life. Acknowledge his Lordship and bow your knee to Him. Make Him the Lord of your life, and then see Him work the changes He wants to make in you. Then with Christ in me, I have a greater chance to be a better husband, parent, friend, citizen, a better person.
The challenge to those of us who already have Christ in our lives must then be similar. If Christ is supposed to make a difference in my life, how did I end up needing to do The Love Dare?
Because I am a flawed human being still, and I need Him working in my life more than ever. I can see that although I love God, devoted my life to His service, held titles and roles that made me appear as if I was perhaps a spiritual rock, there were cracks in my armour, faults in my perception, weaknesses in my heart and mind. If this were not so, I would have been a different husband & DEFINITELY a different parent!!! Many of the choices (& non-choices) I made, I look back and know I should have been different, stronger, wiser.
So here is absolute proof that I need God in my life more and more. If true love is Jesus Christ, then I want more of Him in my life. And I must make the effort consistently to see that happen.
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