Forever Forgiveness

He had done something wrong and we prayed about it. We talked about God’s forgiveness and how He remembers our sins no more. I quoted from His words in scripture, “He casts them as far as the east is from the west,” I explain. I see him trying to calculate just how far that is. “You can’t measure it. That’s the point. He casts them away forever.”

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I can understand my son’s desire to measure how far our sins are cast away. I too try to measure and count how far away they are; how far until He remembers them again. Because that’s how my sinful heart is-I can’t comprehend the kind of forgiveness that is all grace.

I forgive others until they repeat the same mistake again. Then I remember everything they’ve ever done in the past to hurt me. Forgiveness that’s not really forgiveness at all.

God’s forgiveness is truly grace. We were forgiven once and for all at the cross. When Jesus took our punishment and bore His Father’s wrath, it was so we could be forgiven. No matter what sin I may commit in my flesh, God only sees the perfect life of His Son. He truly did cast my sins away! No matter how far my sins may take me, His grace casts those sins farther still.

I don’t have to fear His anger. I don’t have to fear that He’ll stop loving me. I don’t have to fear Him pointing out to me that I’ve committed the same sin a thousand times. Rather, each time I do sin, I remember Jesus. I remember the love that held Him there. I remember that I am truly forgiven, accepted and loved.

It’s a forever forgiveness that can’t be measured, no matter how hard I might try.