Will You Marry Me?

I was watching a US show called 'I propose' a few days ago while waiting for an injured participant to see the doctor at Changi Hospital. I was touched and fascinated at what a guy will do to propose to his girlfriend. This particular episode showed how he went about buying the special ingredients and making her fave special pizza that cannot be found where she lived, to booking a whole ice skating rink and decorating it to look like a park with a bench, flower petals in the form of a heart shape, lamp-post, it is sooOOoo sweet. And of cos after the million dollar question was popped, there came along the family members from both side congratulating the would-be weds.

Surely a lot of planning, consideration and effort were put in. Will I do it? Haha... A lot of work leh... I might, I might not. But what I really need to do is to choose to show my love to that 'someone' for as long as I live, rather than working hard at only this one critical time and that's it. This will require even more planning, consideration and effort. But shouldn't that be the way? Eph 5:25 & 28-29a says,

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, (Context is from 5:25-33)

God commanded husbands to love their wives just as they love themselves and to the point of giving up their lives. To love as I love myself. Wouldn't that be a daily, hourly, all-the-time affair? To love to the point of death. Wouldn't that be sacrificial and require me to go out of my comfort zone for her sake?

Gotta start training for it!