LOVE, like its divine AUTHOR, covers ALL sins.

Love covers, overlooks, 
speedily forgives and forgets
(Don Fortner)
"Hatred stirs up strife, but 
love covers all offenses." 
Proverbs 10:12

Hatred is the selfish principle of an 
unregenerate man. It may be varnished 
by religion and smoothed by hypocrisy, 
but it is a subterranean storm, continually 
stirring up mischief and evil. 

Hatred creates or keeps alive carnal 
strifes. It causes coldness. It creates 
disharmony. It stirs up envy, malicious 
talk, and evil suspicions. Hatred carps 
at the least infirmity in others, and 
aggravates the least fault. 

Hatred resents the most trifling offense. 
It is provoked by the least imaginary 
wrong. 'An ungodly man digs up evil.' 
Such strifes are kindled to the great 
dishonor of GOD. They mar the beauty 
of the gospel. Let us resist this evil of 
the old man by watchfulness and prayer 
'and grieve not the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD'.

Love is the fruit of the SPIRIT. 
It covers a multitude of evils. 
Let us study 1 Corinthians 13 in all 
its detail, and make it the pattern 
for our lives. Let this be the mirror 
of our hearts and the standard of our 
profession. Love covers, overlooks, 
speedily forgives and forgets. 

Love invents reasons to avoid strife. 
Love puts the best possible construction 
on doubtful matters. Love seeks unity 
and agreement. Love does not rigidly 
examine a brother's failures. It will not 
deliberately expose a brother's faults. 
It refuses to uncover the sins of another.

To refrain from gross slander, while 
leaving room for needless and unkind 
doubt, is not covering sin. Nor is 
the 'seven-times forgiveness' 
the true standard of love. 

Love, like its divine AUTHOR, 
covers ALL sins.
Who among us does not need 
the full extent of this covering? 
What is our brother's evil against us, 
compared with our sin against GOD? 
Can we hesitate to blot out our 
brother's few dollars, who look 
for a covering for our debt of ten 
million dollars to GOD? 

Let us imitate CHRIST'S spirit 
of forbearing, forgiving, 
self-sacrificing love! 

"Be kind and compassionate to one 
another, forgiving each other, just 
as in HRIST GOD forgave you." 
Ephesians 4:32 

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