Love Covers Sin
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Love is so important to our walk with Jesus and one another.
In our new Christian life we live in a loving community of service.
Love is what binds the people together
22 Since you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from the heart,
I found this passage resinated with me yesterday and wanted to shar a few thoughts from what Peter is trying to teach Christians about their relationship with one another.
Above All
Above All
Peter starts with this phrase “above all”
He is basically saying that love fore one another is of greatest important and should be full and compete.
7 The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
We so desperately need each other, yet so many try to do Christian life on their own.
I walked away and tried — Develop
Problem is we don’t!
We need the love we share above all other things!
“Keep” — Is a command to keep persistent, to keep continuously in our love for one another
That is why making excuses to be together is important! Peter would say of great importance!
Why?
Why?
Peter tells us why it is important
“love covers a multitude of sins”
“Because” — In view of the fact or since
1 Peter: An Introduction and Commentary (i) Pray More and Love Each Other More (4:7–9)
Where love abounds in a fellowship of Christians, many small offences, and even some large ones, are readily overlooked and forgotten. But where love is lacking, every word is viewed with suspicion, every action is liable to misunderstanding, and conflicts abound—to Satan’s perverse delight
Have seen both in many churches
Think of what Paul says about this same love — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Peter is not suggesting that we allow people that sweep bad things under the rug or even in the name of love let people run all over us
Love means dealing with the sin among us and having the difficult conversations when we have been wronged.
That is Peter’s point when love flourishes we are not easily offended.
I think this idea ties directly to the next verse — 1 Peter 4:9
9 Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
Conclusion
So let us heed the words of Peter and above all things remain fervent in our love for one another.
