just thoughts

"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

Not that our acts of love cancel out our sin. Not that our acts of love by themselves make us right with God. The only act of love that truly, intuitively made us right before God is God's own act of love in sending his Son to earth to be emptied and die on a cross. This is God's kindness that leads us to repentance.

Now our love is the mark of faith and repentance. But our love does not and cannot stand alone to save us. Nor, dare I say, does Christ stand alone to save us. It is through faith in God's grace that we are saved. This saving faith is made complete by our acts of love. Therefore our love is our faith, and our love is our new clothes, covering and replacing our sin.