July 25

1 Peter 4:8 (NIV84)
8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

As a top priority over everything that I have said or everything that you know to do, have an intense, unceasing unconditional love IN yourselves (that will obviously exude from you towards others), because that kind of love hides (puts things under a bowl) a tremendous and nearly uncountable number of sins, (both against you and character issues).

Let’s say you go to In and Out with your friend and they order and reach into their pocket and realize they forgot their wallet. You pull out yours to pay for them (because you have the payment within you) and you say something like, “don’t worry, I have got you covered”. To cap this verses meaning off, you never expect payment back, you have the money and you were happy to do it, even honored that you could.

So here is a simple thought, if you can’t overlook or rather hide someone’s sins, then you don’t have this love in you. Our judgmentalism, lack of forgiveness or critical noticing with a mental notation is a symptom of a lack of this intense and unceasing and unconditional love NOT flourishing in us. T he great thing is it IS there, but needs to be released! We as believers have the greatest lover of all living in us, we HAVE this type of love with the power to cover a multitude of sins. It is time to start allowing this love to flow and choosing to release it on others. Won’t that be awesome!