Posted on 09/16/2021 11:55:02 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends” (Proverbs 17:9).
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love,” Here is the case of another person, he is covering the transgression of someone else other than himself. We are told that “charity covereth a multitude of sins” (I Peter 4:8). In Proverbs 16:28 we are told of the whisperer that separates chief friends; he is telling everybody he finds everything he knows about others. He is a master gossiper. Rather than hide something another has done wrong; he is gladly exposing it.
How many of us can remember back to when we first dated the woman we would marry, or vice versa if you are a lady reading this. We would see no faults in that other person. Weren’t we seeking love? Once we found it and secured it, we started seeing the blemishes—but there was a time when those things just could not be seen—because we didn’t want to see them. On the other hand, some of us have been saved for many years, and we have yet to see even one blemish in our Beloved Saviour. By the same token, many have become disillusioned with Him and are leaving the churches. Oh, they blame the pastor or some member of the church for their discontentment, but in all actuality, it is the Lord Himself with Whom they have lost their first love.
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us” (1 John 2:19).
Of course, God has covered our transgression with the Blood of Jesus Christ: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement” (Romans 5:8-11). Since God refuses to look beyond the Blood of His Son, He has yet to see any of our blemishes as well—and He never will! He chooses not to see them.
“. . . but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends,” this takes us right to and drops us off at the whisperer’s doorstep.
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