Our sins are forgiven and are cast as far away from as that East is to the West. Why did the Spirit inspire this analogy? Because the difference between East and West is infinite. If a person begins to travel East and never turns, they will forever head East. But if a person travels North, it will eventually become southbound as they cross the pole. Northern travel will become southbound travel if you go far enough, and vice versa. It's important to understand that no matter what the distance between us and our transgressions is infinite.
No matter how far we go, we never cross a point where suddenly the direction we are traveling makes the Father closer to remembering the sin that He's forgiven. He doesn't promise forgiveness until we miss up again in a similar way and then suddenly throws the past back into the equation. Once it's under the blood of Christ our sin is never uncovered again. Not by the Father anyway. We can't stop the enemy from trying to make us feel guilty for things that are done and gone, forgiven, but we can choose to believe the truth of God over the condemnation of the enemy. And we can stop using condemning ourselves. Today let our goal be to walk in the truth that we are indeed forgiven and that the sins of our past will never be held against by God.
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