How far is that?

Excited! 

We can be excited as His daughters and handmaidens for our beautiful salvation!

Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

With this wonderful word picture of the East and the West in our minds, we can somewhat fathom how far that is.  We can truly rest in Him and trust Him.  He is intimately involved in our inner most being.  We are His beloved children!

Matthew 10:29-31
Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

If God cares so much for a tiny bird, how much more for us?  If He knows how many hairs are on us, how much more does He care about our inner agonies?  We are always in His thoughts.  Because of this we can trust Him with our children concerns, our husbands, our selves.  We can trust Him even when things do not go like we think they should go.

2 Chronicles 16:9a
He strongly supports us.

Romans 8:26
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

The issue is how we think.  This world is too real around us.  We begin to think in worldly ways.  We need to focus on Jesus, the Author and perfecter of our faith.  Jesus is our example to follow, not the world in its falsehoods, lusts, and fears.  We need to follow Him in His attributes and we will begin to change, transformed to be like Him.

Hebrews 12:1-3
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

He has removed our sins so far there is no way to measure it.  How far is that?!  We  are redeemed from the pit and crowned!  We can trust Him and humbly praise Him for His Mercies.

Glory to God in the Highest!

Psalm 103:1-6
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name.  Bless the Lord, O my soul,  And forget none of His benefits;  Who pardons all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases;  Who redeems your life from the pit,  Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;  Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.  The Lord performs righteous deeds And judgments for all who are oppressed.