As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions
from us. (Psalm 103:12, NIV)
Today I face some…personal horrors, but I’m cool with it. I guess I’ve forgotten the simplicity of forgiving and forgetting. This also means that I should do the same: forgive and forget myself.
A song, “East to West”, was playing on the back of my head last night. I went for my dad’s IPod (conveniently located in my room) and searched on “forgetting sins” in Yahoo. This went to another interesting, yet divisive, inquiry of how God, if willing, forgets our sins if confessed. Most importantly, He forgets them, nailed to the cross.
This is a brimming, bubbling message of hope for all people! This is also confusing! For the God that had decided to forget His enemies –which are us at one point-, He did the unimaginable: become flesh and die so that all can enjoy His eternity.
He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task. The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert. (Leviticus 16:21-22, NIV)
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:-16-14, NIV)
Lord, You have removed all my sins, as of humanity, as the east is from the west. Help me forgive and forget myself, and grow from said experience. In Your name I pray, according to Your will… AMEN.