Love Covers

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. (verse 12)

Another verse in the New Testament says love covers a multitude of sins.

This verse seems pretty self-explanatory and pretty obvious.  Where there is hate – there is conflict.  Where there is love – there is covering.

Have you been wronged?  To love or cover over a wrong doesn’t mean to ignore it or pretend it didn’t happen. What it does mean is to place you and the wrongdoer on the same level – at the foot of the cross – both in need of His mercy.  It means you choose to love them in spite of what they’ve done, knowing that God will deal with them…and heal you.

Have you wronged someone?  Ask God to forgive you and then receive His perfect love that forgives and erases all wrongs. Then go to the person you’ve wronged and ask forgiveness.  

The Bible says that out of faith, hope, and love – the greatest is love.  That’s because there is great power in loving as Jesus did – laying down your life for another.

Don’t live in hatred and unrest.  Love those who have hurt you.  Don’t love the deed but love the doer, because you too have sinned and fallen short at times.