The Promises of God: As Far as East from West
10 May 2025 · 1 min read · Verse Collections
God's forgiveness promises compete in extravagance. As far as the east is from the west — an unmeasurable distance — so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Cast into the depths of the sea. Blotted out as a thick cloud. I will remember their sin no more.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
The divine forgetting
I will remember their sin no more is the covenant's astonishing clause — not divine amnesia, but a settled refusal to bring it up again, ever. What God has forgiven, he does not file for later use. The account is not archived; it is destroyed.
The ground of it all is the cross: without shedding of blood is no remission — and the blood was shed. Forgiveness is therefore just as well as merciful: faithful and just to forgive.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Scarlet to snow
Come now, and let us reason together: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. The promise addresses the worst honestly — scarlet, crimson — and out-promises it: snow, wool.
The only sins God cannot forgive are the ones never brought. Bring them; the promises are waiting, and the distance from east to west has not shrunk.
