How Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins

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About This Episode This devotional episode is based on 1 Peter 4:7-11: the end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Aaron and Jennifer Smith share how love covers sin and why it is so important that we love with this level of eagerness. After a week when their whole family had the flu, they talk about thanking God in hard moments, what it means to love earnestly, and why covering sin is not ignoring it but dealing with it in a loving, reconciling way. They also discuss how we all long for this kind of love for ourselves.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode A family flu — Aaron learning to thank God in the middle of sickness The end of all things is at hand — reading 1 Peter 4:7 in light of the finished work of Christ Self-controlled and sober-minded — a posture for prayer Loving earnestly — what it means to love with sincere and intense conviction Love covers sin — why covering sin is not ignoring it but dealing with it lovingly The blanket and the snow — word pictures of how love covers The atonement — how Christ's covering reaches into broken relationships A prayer — asking God to make us people who love others earnestly

Scripture Referenced 1 Peter 4:7-11

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