Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. –Proverbs 10:12
Have you ever met people who seem to live to fight? I mean the kind of person who doesn’t seem happy unless they have fought with somebody? Believe it or not, they do exist, and God exposes them in Proverbs. You say, “but aren't there people who warrant the strife? Absolutely …………. we all have faults and sins worthy of strife and probably stripes, but it seems here that the person who loves learns to decifer what is worthy of strife or not. They don’t automatically seek strife. The Bible says in this verse that it is hatred that stirs things up, but it never questions the fact that there is stuff worthy of strife; that is a given. The fact that hatred stirs means that there is something there to stir. In this verse God is comparing how Hatred behaves verses how Love behaves. In essence hatred is looking with a magnifying glass for the wrong to stir and those who love tend to not wear their 20/20 goggles so as to avoid the relational strife. It is not that those who love don’t fight but they choose their battles carefully. They tend not to major on the minors. Are you a stirrer or a coverer?
Comparable Verses: Provervbs 14:17, 29 / Proverbs 16:27, 28, 32 / Proverbs 17:20 / Proverbs 18:24
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