Topic: Love: Take the Leap! [David Jeremiah Ministry 8 February 2020 | Turning Point Ministries]

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends.
Proverbs 17:9

Recommended Reading: James 5:20

“Cover-up” has gained a negative connotation in our cultural conversation—and rightfully so. The phrase usually implies that someone hid something that should have been exposed to the light of truth and justice. Usually cover-ups occur when something significant is at stake, when someone would stand to lose status, power, or reputation if the truth was revealed. Cover-ups, then, are considered bad form.

But there is another kind of cover-up. It’s when a person chooses to cover the sins of another with a veil of love. Yes, the truth is being concealed, but only from those who have no stake in the matter; from those who don’t need to know. When a person sins, repents, confesses, and makes restitution to the injured party, the matter is done. The cover-up of love chooses not to gossip to others about what someone has done, something for which God has granted forgiveness. To gossip about another’s life does nothing except separate friends.

The next time you know of someone’s transgression, take the love-leap. Don’t uncover it before the eyes of those who don’t need to know.

Gossip is the art of confessing other people’s sins.
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