When somebody has given himself to another person to be able to save or help him despite death is exchanged to his life, it is called sacrifice. Sacrifice is a very difficult task, because offering life for someone's sake and safety is martyrdom. But what is the root of sacrifice that even life is offered? How deep should it be to tell that sacrifice is complete?
Love is the cause and root of sacrifice. When love is bound in relationship, I can say that lovers can sacrifice something for their partners, however, love should not be superficial, but must be deep and unfathomable. When you are under the spell of love, anything can be possible to happen, even giving your own life for you family, spouse, partner, children, parents and others is not impossible to do. Even people not knowing each other can help each other and sacrifice their life for others sake, and as is it true for animals, too. A human being who sacrifice itself has had unconditional love. Under this love, it is proving that dying for the sake of others does not necessarily to receive something in return or to become a hero. True and unconditional love is the deepest factor why sacrificing is meaningful. It depicts all the good manners that humans have.
Best example of Sacrificing is Jesus Christ's death. God has sent his only son to die on the cross and sacrifice himself for us. Because of his love to us, God sacrifice his own son to redeem the world and to save us from our sins. It is difficult to see your son hanging in the woods cursed and scoffed by the sinners, that they do not know what are they doing and who had they crucified. People can say that I would sacrifice myself for my family and friends, but as long as it is not done it is not true.
Before you tell your family about sacrifice, contemplate that sacrificing is not only to dying for or offering life for their sake, but the simplest and basic you can do to show love and sacrifice to them is by giving them good life, set as a good example, working honestly and giving your best shot to this world. I think God does not ask for more than anything else, because he given his son already, but what we need to do is to believe in him and the one whom he sent, who is Jesus Christ.
