By Elizabeth Prata
Resurrection Sunday has just passed. I celebrated the monumental work of our Lord in His redemption of us to the Father. He will present a spotless bride thanks to Him living a sinless life, becoming sin for us, dying on the cross after exhausting God’s wrath for those sins. He paid the penalty we were due.
that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.(Ephesians 5:27).
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence— (Colossians 1:22).
The resurrection is a gateway to eternal life! And now our sins are as far away as the east is from the west!
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our wrongdoings from us. (Psalm 103:2).
The Bible is so perfect in every way, so detailed and complex, but so clear a child could understand it, that there is a reason it is written ‘east from the west’ and not as far as the north is from the south. There is a difference between those cardinal directions.
You can travel north to the Pole. But once passing the North Pole you are now traveling south. However, if you travel east, there is never a time when you are now traveling west. It is endless. You always travel east and never get to the west. It is a measureless distance. It is an infinite distance.
Because the earth is a globe, a sphere, the lines of latitude circle endlessly. North and south lead to specific, finite points—the North and South Poles and you can’t go any further in that direction before it stops and becomes another direction.
Jesus’s love for us is such that He not only bore the wrath for our sins but He removed them from us to an immeasurable infinity. When we repent, our sins are gone, boundlessly extinct. God’s immeasurable love is never distant from us though. Our sins are thrown to a point as far as the east is from the west, but God is Immanuel: God with us!
“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14.
Praise the Lord who was born, lived sinlessly taught, died, and rose again! Our sins are now taken care of, if we repent and believe.
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