By: Fred Reid
Short Version: You may not always feel like you are far from your sin. But you and sin are as opposite as East and West.
I’m bbbbaaaackkkk!!! : ) sorry I been gone for so long folk. Mo been putting us to shame with her consistency aint she? Geez?! Fortunately this isn’t a contest and God loves us all the same lol.
So this’n right here is about Psalms 103:10-13. Check it out of course but the main thing I’ll be dealing with is verse 12
“As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us”
Interesting wording huh? Sounds borderline poetic doesn’t it? Or maybe that’s just me. In any case let’s take that a little further by asking just how far is the east from the west? In theory they would have to be really far because they never overlap. You can NEVER go so far east that you are going west. However they are extremely close in that even that slightest reverse of direction has you heading towards the opposite. To be a little more clear, East and West are as close as the few inches that separate them on a compass, even the smallest of buildings, bugs and everything in between has an east side and a west side.
I point this out to reveal that as born again believers we have been SEPARATED from sin but it is easy to head right back into it and sometimes it may feel as they your past (urges, addictions, attitudes, behaviors, way of thinking) all that is still SO close to you. But this is the example of east of west. No matter how close it feels, it’s actually in a completely different direction. The ONLY way to be caught back up into that mess is to make a reversal back into it. Just in case this is still confusing (because I’m not sure I’m explaining it the way I really feel it inside) let’s say that going East is right (salvation) and west is wrong (a life of sin). No matter how far West (saved) you go, sin will follow. You will be aware that it is there and sometimes it may be presented in front of you. It is important to realize that at this point you have reversed your direction! Sin’s rightful place is behind you, in the past, the only way to have it presented in front of you is to entertain it’s pull. This is a dangerous place to be.
In closing (that’s some preacher stuff huh lol) it also works the other way around. In the even that you have gone backwards, back into sin or back into some type of struggle you KNOW you were delivered from, there is still an option to get back right. As a called out one, a member of the royal priesthood of Christ, you can come back home. No matter how far west (into sin) you go there is always a East (salvation) available. This is why we thank God for His grace and mercy!
Over and Out : )
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