So Deep A Love

 

This week’s video was on the song So Far Away by Red and overall, it was a solid song about feeling distant from God.

Even just the song title can remind you of Psalm 103:11-12
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

This passage shows us how far our sins have been removed from us. The song talked about returning to sin and sinning again, and that is a real problem for many of us. This illustration shows us a deeper understanding thought.

Even if we return to our wicked ways and go back to the sins that we struggle with personally, it is a new sin. If you repent you are forgiven, and that sin is removed from you. If you go back to the same habits, you are still sinning, however sometimes we are told that returning to a sin makes it stack on itself or multiply its sinfulness. That is not true. The sin has already been removed from you and taken so far away that it cannot be comprehended. You are still called to do better and to ask for strength from God in doing better.

We can be confident that God’s love is deeper than anything we could ever imagine, and He has taken our sins. Our sins killed Jesus, but through His power he defeated death and we can know that our sins were paid that day!