Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins!

One of the greatest mistakes people make is to marry one another for purely sexual attraction. That is an animal instinct, yet so many base their relationship on this one factor. True love is based on two people sharing in each others lives. They develop a devotion and share in things together that only they possess and no one else is allowed in. That is what "marriage proofs" their marriage. No one else allowed. When a relationship is simply 'external', over time that relationship will erode and the door will be opened wide for things that will cost them in their marriage and eternally. I cannot tell you how many couples have told me that their relationship started 'in the bedroom' and went little beyond that. I have known several couples where the husband wants the wife to get 'enhancing' surgeries because they think it will benefit their relationship. It's all purely physical. Today some of these couples are struggling to keep their marriage intact while others have been overthrown into the tragic defeat of divorce.

Over the years, I have seen good looking men and women find a mate that is far from good looking. I have made comments, "How in the world was she attracted to him?" What I have come to learn is their relationship is based on something deeper than the physical. Couples who love one another love because they have learned to see the heart of the other. You can see it in the little names they call one another. Names no one else understands or might not even know. They communicate and laugh together. They have invested their lives in one another, poured out themselves for one another and enjoy each others company. They love despite imperfections in one another. They have learned that "love covers a multitude of sins." (I Pet. 4:8) Their love is fervent. Their love keeps sin from walking into their homes and lives. Their love is true and genuine. Love is what makes the most ridiculous things acceptable and at times, adoring!

In the movie The Music Man (one of my personal favorites), Professor Harold Hill had deceived a whole town out of their money, making them believe he could form a band out of their children. Parents were elated! They freely gave Professor Hill their money and he was about to walk away with it. At the end, when he was finally seen for the deceiving rat he was, they were ready to tar and feather him as all the facts came to the surface. One last opportunity to hear all the children play, while cuffed, he began leading this band of children in some of the most horrible sounding, off key notes blurting out that anyone had ever heard. Suddenly, one parent jumped up with tears in their eyes, shouted out, "Barney, that tuba's my Barney!" Suddenly other parents followed as their child blew their little hearts out in awful tones. Parental love covered a multitude of musical sins!

Learn to love with a genuine love that sets that love on your mate (or another) no matter of their imperfections. Real love is a choice, not a feeling. Learn to help one another, not push each other away (and that includes intimacy I Cor. 7:1-5). Too many marriages are living on the edge in their relationships and sin is crouching at the door. Marriages that have been together for 25-30 years and couples still do not know one another! What a shame and tragic waste of years. Make right moves and remember the words of Peter: "Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins."