covered in love

 

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV)
 
There’s something so powerful about that little phrase:
“Above all…”
Above all the noise, above all the opinions.
Above all the disagreements and above all the offenses.
Love.
Not shallow love or convenient love, not selective love, but deep love.
The kind of love that chooses forgiveness over keeping score.
The kind of love that doesn’t dig up the past every time something goes wrong.
The kind of love that doesn’t keep reminding people of who they used to be.
Love that covers.
And isn’t that exactly what Jesus does for us?
He doesn’t expose our every failure or hold our worst mistakes over our heads.
He doesn’t love us “with conditions,” but He covers us with grace, mercy and with compassion.
At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of the One who would one day stretch His arms wide on a cross and cover every sin with His blood. That’s not a light, fluffy kind of love—that’s deep, sacrificial, life-changing love.
And now… He asks us to love like that too.
This is where it gets real.
Because loving deeply means:
Letting go of grudges, choosing forgiveness when it hurts, extending grace when someone doesn’t deserve it, and resisting the urge to constantly bring up old wounds.
Let’s be honest—none of that is easy.
But love that never costs anything is rarely love that changes anything.
If Jesus chose to cover me when I was at my worst…
How can I refuse to offer that same covering to someone else?
So today, I’m asking the hard heart-check questions:
Who do I still hold something against?
Who do I need to forgive—again?
Where have I chosen distance instead of deep love?
Because Christmas love isn’t just something we receive.
It’s something we are called to live.
 
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