"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."
God has so thoroughly removed your sin from you, the distance is described with the largest measurement the world has to offer. If there was a distance on earth, farther than the East from the West it would have been used here. The simple fact is that we do not have words to describe how completely God has forgiven His children.
Your salvation is based on your acceptance of the greatest sacrifice ever offered. The shear magnitude of the price paid at Calvary makes the obliteration of your sin the only feasible outcome. The cross was love's nuclear weapon. Your sin has been destroyed. Nothing of what you have done remains.
How else could scripture truthfully say that God, who is omnipotent, has forgotten you ever committed the offense? God, who sees all and knows all, does not remember your sin (Isaiah 43:25)...has there ever been a more glorious statement?
The enemy is called the "father of lies" and your guilt is his biggest one. He wants you to believe you are damaged...you have a stain...you can never be clean. But when you again ask God to forgive the same offense, God by His own decree, is unaware of what you are talking about. All He sees is a child standing in the righteousness of Christ.
Don't cheapen the sacrifice by doubting its potency. It is finished. There is no stain, no blemish and you are free to enter His glory, and rest in His love.
Live today free in the justification that was purchased at so high a price. Hate the sin that made it necessary, but know the blood of Christ has emptied sin of its strength. What we confess, and repent of is gone. Not hidden, not reduced....gone. Stop carrying it around with you, and walk free in His amazing grace.
“If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.” ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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