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Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS.

1 Peter 4:8, LSB

When you love someone, you tend to have more grace and forgiveness. This is the spirit our Lord desires for us to carry in the Church as followers of Christ. Peter’s letter is a reminder of this calling for us. We all know the hymn, “They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love.” Our Lord commanded His followers to love one another. Sadly, love and loving are not the descriptors that are often given by people who are not Christian when asked how they would describe the Christian Church. Paul writes of love in his letter to the Church in Corinth, often used as a reading at weddings. The love our Lord is talking about isn’t the imitation of love we often see portrayed in the media. Love calls us to gentle honesty, and it doesn’t make any sin OK. A loving response to sin is to point it out and lead the person we love away from it. If we saw a loved one taking something that would take his life we would not say it was fine, but we would stop him and spare his life. This is love. As the Church, we are called to approach the world unified in the love of our Lord. In our love for Christ and one another, we are transformed and can transform others through it. Our love eases pain and covers old hurts. Our love shines out Christ and gives us His peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.