#410 – East From West

Good morning completely forgiven people

God’s love is without limit and His forgiveness is complete. In fact, God’s forgiveness of our sins is one of the ways that we know the depth of His love.

Psalm 103:11-12 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

When we think about east from west we think around the earth. When we are standing in a place and we talk about going east, we point in a certain direction knowing that if you keep on travelling you would end up back in the same place. Although this is HUGE I believe this verse is even BIGGER.

If the earth is a small ball in a large open expanse, our thinking as mentioned above would be to go around the ball. In the truest sense, east is going from a position on the ball outward in one direction into the expanse and west is going outward in the other direction. Now imagine the expanse of all that God has created. We cannot comprehend it and man has not discovered the end of it; if in fact there is an end. The reality is if you went east and kept on going you would never get back to the same position; you would never return to the place from where you have come.

This is how far God removes our sin from us. We think it is still there somewhere. Not so with God. When He has forgiven it, it no longer exists. This level of complete forgiveness is simply another expression of God’s love; that’s how much He loves you. God loves you so much that He chooses to forgive your sin and remember it no more. I pray you receive God’s forgiveness today and embrace His love.