“How great is God’s love for
all who worship him? Greater than the
distance between heaven and earth! How far has the Lord taken our sins from
us? Farther than the distance from east
to west!” Psalm
103:11-12
God’s
love is incomprehensible. We cannot find
its match this side of heaven. We love
others, however, it ends up being a conditional love based on how we feel at
any given moment or how the object of our love is treating us. God’s love is like Him; it was, it is and is
forevermore the same. The Lord’s
feelings for His creation never change.
We can’t say or do anything that could change the way God feels about
us. He loves us unconditionally. God may not love how we act or what we do at
times, but His love for us remains the same from the day we are formed in our
mother’s womb until the day we leave this earth.
Our
sin has accumulated since birth until the day we surrendered our heart and will
over to our loving, Creator God. When we
allow our sins to be cleansed from us, God completely removes them. Charles H. Spurgeon says this about verse 12:
“The Lord alone could remove sin at all,
and he has done it in a godlike fashion, making a final sweep of all our
transgressions.”1 God, through the prophet Isaiah, says the following: “But I wipe away
your sins because of who I am. And so, I
will forget the wrongs you have done.” (Isaiah 43:25) Is God flawed? Is He forgetful? No, He chooses never to hold our sins against
us again. Unlike Satan who constantly
throws the past in our face to impede any spiritual progress we might be
making, the Lord forgives, forgets and then uses us for the furthering of His
kingdom.
We remember our past far too
frequently. That’s not God’s will for
us, yet He understands our inability to forget our own misdeeds. It is a weight we are not meant to
carry. Give your past over to the Lord. Close the door on your unsaved past and begin
to focus on your future with God. It will
take prayer and perhaps even some fasting to cause your past to release its
hold. No one can do that but the One who
made you. Surrender and live! Until
Christ returns, walk with the King and be a blessing!
1The Treasury of David, written by
Charles H. Spurgeon.
