PROMISE #297 - OCTOBER 24
Promise #297:
My love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 (WEB)
And above all things be earnest
in your love among yourselves,
for love covers a multitude of sins.
I appreciate how the NIV Bible translates this verse... Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
When Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, they realized they were naked and felt shame for the first time. It is terrible to feel uncovered and exposed. That is why so many of us try to cover our own spiritual nakedness with activities, accomplishments, and possessions.
I love today's promise because it says that love covers us. Not only does it cover all our sins, but love covers every area where we feel naked and ashamed. The best definition of love I know of can be found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. It talks about how patient love is, how kind it is, how it doesn't get easily angered, how love believes all things, hopes in all things, and endures all things.
The love that we were created to receive will never fail. If you are struggling today with a feeling of being uncovered somehow, be encouraged to know that love will cover you completely. For that is what love does. It always protects.
My prayer for each of us is that we will know more about our Father's covering love today than we did yesterday, and tomorrow will be a new opportunity to know even more about His unending, amazing, eternal love!
My love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 (WEB)
And above all things be earnest
in your love among yourselves,
for love covers a multitude of sins.
I appreciate how the NIV Bible translates this verse... Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
When Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, they realized they were naked and felt shame for the first time. It is terrible to feel uncovered and exposed. That is why so many of us try to cover our own spiritual nakedness with activities, accomplishments, and possessions.
I love today's promise because it says that love covers us. Not only does it cover all our sins, but love covers every area where we feel naked and ashamed. The best definition of love I know of can be found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. It talks about how patient love is, how kind it is, how it doesn't get easily angered, how love believes all things, hopes in all things, and endures all things.
The love that we were created to receive will never fail. If you are struggling today with a feeling of being uncovered somehow, be encouraged to know that love will cover you completely. For that is what love does. It always protects.
My prayer for each of us is that we will know more about our Father's covering love today than we did yesterday, and tomorrow will be a new opportunity to know even more about His unending, amazing, eternal love!