“Most vital of all, proceed to indicate deep love for one another, for love covers a large number of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8 NLT
1 Peter chapter 4 verse 8, again, says, above all, love one another deeply. That signifies that I don’t need my love for my wife to be on the surface. I need to get to the place where I really like her deeply.
We should love one another deeply. And then it goes on to say that because love covers a large number of sins, that is deep love. Scripture doesn’t say a number of sins but an entire bunch of sins—missing the mark, ungodly sin.
Love covers your weaknesses. Love covers your shortcomings, love covers your idiosyncrasies, love covers your quirkiness and your personality. Because I believe those are the small things.
In the infatuation stage, it is easy to fall prey to considering your spouse can do no incorrect, or you possibly can do no incorrect. But then, within the fight for power stage, you possibly can do no right, or they’ll’t get anything right. And we’re allowing Satan in our flesh to make small things seem so big.
But love covers all of that. Love covers all.
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