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The Season for Love
Evangelist Dr. Bob Sanders
February 1, 2007
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The Supply of
Love – “love covereth” (Proverbs 10:12)
When describing
one of the characteristics of love, the writer said, “love
covereth.” The word “covereth” means to plump or fill
up hollows. Some have said that love is blind. This may be true
of some worldly sensual love, but this is not true of a godly
love. Love looks at the object it has chosen to love and sees
all of its flaws and shortcomings. While loves sees the object
for what it is, love also sees it for what it can be. Love
begins to plump or fill in the hollows. When love finds an area
of weakness in that which it loves, loves begins to help
strengthen that area. When love discovers a gap or a low place
it tries to fill up or make it smooth even if it requires the
sacrifice of itself. God is not blind to our depravity, but in
love responded with the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
The Secrecy of
Love – “love covereth” (Proverbs 10:12)
The word
“covereth” also means to conceal or to cover for secrecy.
While love acknowledges that the object that it loves has flaws,
unlike hatred that exposes and magnifies, love conceals. In the
book of the Revelation, Satan is called “the accuser of our
brethren” (Revelation 12:10). This truth is seen in the book
of Job when the Devil accused Job. Love is not an accuser, but
rather an advocate. Love in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ,
stands between me and the accuser. The blood of Christ not only
cleanses me from all sin, but that blood removed my sin never to
be remembered any more. The blood of Christ has concealed my
sinful depravity.
The Season of
Love – “loveth at all times” (Proverbs 17:17)
True love does not
cycle on and off. Paul said in I Corinthians 13:8, “Charity
never faileth.” The word “faileth” means to drop
away, to lose or become inefficient. Once love has chosen the
object, it never ceases to love that object. It is not the
character of the object, but the choice of love that determines
the season of love. There has never been a time when God did not
love me and there will never be a time when God will cease to
love me. I am glad that I have a friend that sticketh closer
than a brother and a friend that loveth at all times. (see
Proverbs 17:17&18:24) |
