In theory, east and west will always be separate; you
cannot travel so far west that you are traveling east or vice-versa. So the psalmist
is explaining that God in His mercy has taken our sins and their penalties so
far away from us that we can never run into them again. In verse 11, the
psalmist tells us it is God’s inexhaustible love which motivates this action: “For
as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who
fear him.”
When we revere God, truly worship Him, and accept His
atoning sacrifice, He rewards us with a love so full of mercy, grace, and
compassion that we can hardly fathom it. The next time you feel the weight of
sins you’ve already confessed and repented of, remember these verses from the
Psalms as well as the words of the prophet Isaiah: “I, even I, am he who blots
out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.”
(Isaiah 43:25)
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