Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Love Protects

There has been a friend that has felt much unjust regarding how leaders are biased towards
their own members. That should anybody confront a particular unhappy incident, the leaders will always protect the accused member instead of siding with the wronged party.

To some people, such attitudes of the leader could be deemed unwise judgement.

However, the explanation to this is:

Love always protects.

From Max Lucado's A Love Worth Giving : "Here is what love says: Love says nothing. Love stays silent. "Love covers a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8 NASB). Love doesn't expose. It doesn't gossip. If love says anything, love speaks words of defense. Words of kindness. Words of protection."


Like how a mother protects her child who plays truant and smokes heavily - she continues praying that he will change his ways and serves him daily with meals and cleaning his mess

Like how a friend who fends for her bestie when the rest of the class cracks nasty jokes about her - there may be some truth in it but she stands by her friend with encouragements

Like how Jesus never failed to forgive us, when we lied, swore, spoke hurtful words, he forgave even the adulterers! - He never condemned or gave up on us. Instead He gave us a chance, or rather, many chances to start afresh.

Jesus offered us a cloak of love. Do you know somebody who needs this cloak of love?

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