Good Morning Sabbath...
Father thank You for this NEW DAY. Thank You for the opportunity to tell others about and show others Your LOVE. Thank you for Your REST. Thank You for CHANGING OUR HEARTS from stone to flesh and and Your Allowance in COVERING A MULTITUDE OF SINS. IN YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST’s Mighty Name. Amen. - Heavenly Food For Thought: Love Covers Whose Sin? “And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “Love will cover a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8 There is no doubt we have all heard 1Peter 4:8 spoken and read before, but sometime ago I received a whole new perspective on this Word. While to me it always seemed that Loving someone covered up their sins, one day it dawned on me that maybe... others sins are not what the Love is covering. What if it is our own sins that are covered when we Love. There are many of our Brothers and Sisters that receive this devotional each day that may have "caught this" meaning from the beginning, but for me, and maybe now for you, it was a new perspective. Let's camp on this for a moment. We are to be like Christ. What did Christ do? While He had no sins to cover, He still covered ours in front of Our Father... with Love. Each of us is imperfect. Each of us sin. If we Love others... could this not be covering our sins and not theirs? Because we Love a person... the wrong we have done is overlooked because we are spreading The Love of Our Father and Our Savior. Not condemning, not judging, and being judged by the same standard we judge others... Is this what Our Messiah was talking about? We are a prized servant if we but Love our work. Think about this example: There is a servant of a farmer, who Loves the farmer very much, and he works extra diligently to please the farmer because of his Love for him. Let’s say this servant accidentally runs over a set of the crops. Because of his Love for his master, this worker collects more crops, works the hardest, and always goes the extra mile to help the farmer. Will this farmer not be more willing to overlook the servants mistake? Of course! Can you see it? His mistakes are “covered” because of his everyday LOVE for the farmer and his extra effort. Makes perfect sense, right? While writing this devotion, I had a Wonderful Brother, who is raising some amazing Children of God and truly "Being A Light," along with his amazing wife, send me a message in reply to a previous devotion. I can't think of a better way to show in word, thought, and deed what we are looking at today than to end with the words he sent me. Thank You Brother. I pray you don't mind, but I truly believe it is 1Peter 4:8 in action. "Amein. When I think about those who have hurt me, I know that if I was to go say anything about it to them, my flesh would take over and make it worse. So I keep my mouth shut and PRAY FOR THEM, and pray to LOVE THEM and be able to show love to them. I was once in the habit of speaking evil against the ones who hurt me. I found that it made me feel more anger and resentment and Yeshua told us to love your neighbor as yourself (Matt 22:39). He also said not to hate your brother (1John 2:9-10). And again, take the log out of your eye before you point out the speck in your brothers (Luke 6:42, Matt 7:3-4).....I tell you, just with those verses, it made me look at myself, and I did not like what I saw. So even now, I have to look at myself first to see why I am reacting a certain way. Pray and fast if so led, then MOVE ALONG IN LOVE. Let those Yeshua ripples come forth!" His Love Covered the hatred! His Love covered the sin!!! I pray to The Mighty Living God, Our Father Above, that we all may Love More so that each of us covers the sins which we have all committed. God Bless Each and Everyone of you on the other side of this screen and have a Great God-Filled Day! SHABBAT SHALOM AND HAPPY SABBATH EVERYBODY! Extra Fuel For The Soul: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” Matthew 7:1-2 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness,” Psalms 95:8 “Then He began to rebuke the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent: “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.” At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.” Matthew 11:20-25 “By this EVERYONE will know that you are MY DISCIPLES—if you have LOVE for ONE ANOTHER.” John 13:35
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