What do the following verses show us about God's forgiveness?
Psalm 103:12
as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
East and West never meet... so it is always an infinite distance apart.
Isaiah 38:17
Surely it was for my benefit
that I suffered such anguish.
In your love you kept me
from the pit of destruction;
you have put all my sins
behind your back.
God no longer "sees" either our deliberate disobedience or our marred performance, instead he "sees" Christ's righteousness... and because of that, there is no need to punish us - so whatever anguish we suffer, it is to help us, not to hurt us.
Isiah 43:25
I, even I, am he who blots out
your transgressions, for my own sake,
and remembers your sins no more.
Not only does He forgive our sins, He doesn't keep throwing them in our faces to remind us how horrible we are and how we don't deserve His love.
Micah 7:19
You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
He doesn't just ignore our sins - He actively throws them away because they were already dealt with by Jesus so he doesn't want to see them anymore because there is no need!
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