Is There Selfless Sacrifice In Me?

Do I have the courage to really lay my life on the line for another person? A person that may not even be related to me. I have been searching my heart trying to find the answer within me. I probably will never know unless the situation arises.

Here is the story and the reason why I'm looking into my heart and my courage. There is a woman that attends our church. She is a very active member, serves on worship team, leads a small group with her husband, teaches Sunday school once a month and the list goes on and on. I often wondered that she is so busy with the "works" of the church does she have the time or the heart to really have a relationship with God. Okay, that's a pretty judgemental attitude and I could not have been more wrong. This woman's faith and love for the Lord moved her to recently donate a kidney to someone she has gotten to be good friends with over the last five years. She didn't hesitate, she didn't do the "what ifs"....what if the kidney I have left fails, what if her body rejects my kidney and neither one of us have use of if, what if something goes wrong in the surgery, the list of what ifs could go on and on. But, she didn't do that. She went ahead and had the test for compatibility as a donor. She was found to be the best donor match of anyone tested. This woman's behavior and character was truly an example selfless sacrifice and a behavior of acting like Jesus with skin on. Her response, when asked about why she chose to do this was "God gave you an extra kidney, you might as well share it." Both women have been blessed making remarkable recoveries after highly successful surgeries.

So, I look at myself, do I have the courage and a strong enough faith to "put it on the line"? Would I/could I do that for someone else? There's no doubt in my mind that I could donate a kidney to one of my children or my husband. I want to hope and believe that I would be the kind of person that would selflessly sacrifice for another. Boy, I admire this woman so much and her courage to give to another without thinking of herself. This is the type of character I hope I have within me.