Is it spiritual to cover for the sins of other people if those people are your family?

Should we just accept our family for the way they are, even if that way has deeply hurt us or affects us?

Is it okay to keep family secrets and is keeping family secrets just a part of what you do out of loyalty and love?

I'm diving into that today on Jesus over

everything, and I hope to bring some clarity to this very tender subject of family secrets.

Sometimes when I write my books, there are last-minute editions, things that I don't plan on including, but it's clear from the Lord that he wants me to put them in.

He brings them to my heart.

He brings them to my mind.

And I know I'm supposed to drop them in because they come in sort of in that final hour. That happened to me when I was writing my book

Jesus over everything in two instances. One was the chapter on holiness over freedom where I

talked about alcohol. I think I've shared that on here before.

It was something that I never intended to write about.

I actually wasn't going to write that chapter at all,

Holiness over Freedom,

but the Lord brought it to my mind, compelled me to write about it,

and as a result, that chapter is perhaps the one

that people talk about the most from Jesus over everything.

So I know he wanted me to include that. I did in the final hour. The other thing that was

brought in at the final hour in Jesus over everything as well was when I was writing a chapter

called Honesty Over hiding. And I was talking about our personal issues with being honest.

And after I wrote that chapter, the Lord brought to my mind this aspect of hiding secrets for

other people, like not being honest in that way, especially our family,

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