SEPTEMBER 10
LOVE COVERS
1 Peter 4:7-8
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. (WEB)
This is yet another Scripture passage where we read 'above all things'... love each other. No matter how great our Christian service, if it is not rooted and grounded in the love of God, it is for nothing. No matter how many spiritual gifts we manifest, if love isn't the motivation, then we are truly powerless.
In today's reading, Peter reminds us that love covers a multitude of sins. Love doesn't expose or embarrass; love always protects (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). Isn't it wonderful that this is the truth? Can you imagine if God's love didn't cover us? How would we feel if He pointed out every mistake and every sin we committed? We would be afraid to get close to Him, fearing He would humiliate us.
But that is not how love works. Love believes the best. Love protects, and love covers. My prayer today is that we will genuinely understand what it means to live in love. If we judge others, we are not living in love. If we condemn those who may even deserve it, we are not living in love.
May the Holy Spirit help us to extend the grace and mercy we've received from Him to every person we meet, whether they deserve it or not... for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. (WEB)
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins. (WEB)
This is yet another Scripture passage where we read 'above all things'... love each other. No matter how great our Christian service, if it is not rooted and grounded in the love of God, it is for nothing. No matter how many spiritual gifts we manifest, if love isn't the motivation, then we are truly powerless.
In today's reading, Peter reminds us that love covers a multitude of sins. Love doesn't expose or embarrass; love always protects (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). Isn't it wonderful that this is the truth? Can you imagine if God's love didn't cover us? How would we feel if He pointed out every mistake and every sin we committed? We would be afraid to get close to Him, fearing He would humiliate us.
But that is not how love works. Love believes the best. Love protects, and love covers. My prayer today is that we will genuinely understand what it means to live in love. If we judge others, we are not living in love. If we condemn those who may even deserve it, we are not living in love.
May the Holy Spirit help us to extend the grace and mercy we've received from Him to every person we meet, whether they deserve it or not... for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. (WEB)