Valentine’s Day often centers on romance — flowers, gifts, and feelings. But for those who walk with Christ, love must go deeper than gestures or emotions. The world teaches us to love only when it’s convenient, mutual, or exciting. Scripture teaches us to love when it’s costly, undeserved, and needed most. In the book of Proverbs 10:12, it is written: “Hatred stirs up strife” but love covers all sins.” This reveals a sharp contrast: while hatred fuels conflict, love heals wounds — not by ignoring sin, but by covering it with grace.
Brothers and sisters, when the Bible says that love covers all sins, it is not talking about denial. It’s talking about redemption. Covering sin means we choose forgiveness over bitterness, mercy over gossip, reconciliation over revenge. God’s love doesn’t excuse wrongdoing; it transforms hearts so deeply that wrongs lose their power to divide.
Valentine’s Day has become a day of showing affection, but in Christ, every day is an invitation to show divine love, the kind of love that absorbs offense, heals relationships, and keeps unity in the body of Christ. Godly love is not built on emotion but obedience.
Jesus covered our sins by His blood, and He commands us to do for others what He did for us. We are to love without limits. We do not attend Valentine’s Day to idolize romance but we should use it to remind ourselves that love is sacred, costly, and holy. When we forgive, bear one another’s burdens, and seek peace, our love becomes a living testimony that Christ dwells within us. So today, practice a love that covers all things because you have been covered by the greatest love of all.
Xh Vameng Pha -HBNA Vice President