6/17/14
Casting
Crowns sings a song called "East to West".
There is one part that goes like this…
“I know you've cast my sin as far as the east is from the west”
We are all sinners. We sin all the time,
sometimes even without thinking about it. Some people think of sin as a big
event; stealing, cheating, committing adultery, etc. Humans tend to categorize
sin. What about gossiping? Having a bad thought about someone? Telling a little
“white lie”? Sin is sin, no matter how big or small we think it might be. We
all deserve to pay the consequences. The very fact that God sent His only Son
to die on the cross so that our sins could be forgiven always amazes me. Jesus
could have said “enough is enough” at any moment. However, He chose to take the
lashes, the beatings, and the nails for us. Wow! Think about it!
Because
of what Jesus did on the cross, our sins can be forgiven, wiped away, as far as
the east is from the west.
Psalms
103:12 reveals,
“He
has removed our sins as far from us as
the east is from the west”.
Just how far is east
from the west? It is endless. When we truly repent God casts our sins to the
point of no return.
“You are always going east if you go east. There
is no going west when you are going east. This is because the world is round
and even if you flatten it out you will end up on the other side of the map
once you hit the edge of the eastern side of the map. You will still be going
east”. The same goes for west. Once you go west, if you keep going in that
direction, you will always be going west, not east.
God could have said that our sins would be cast
as far as the North is from the South. However, after you pass a pole, you will
be going south, but there is no pole east to west, so you could (theoretically
if there is a path of infinite land) continuously go east forever, or west
forever.
God knows what He is doing!
Let’s thank Him today for His mercy,
His
forgiveness.
Written by
Storm Hendrickson
Here is the song for today by Casting Crowns
This is a concept that has always captured my imagination. East and West cannot meet on a straight line. The straight line here is the space by the two hands of Jesus nailed on opposite sides (east and west) of the cross. This is another of God's wondrous works towards us.
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