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E-mails are a great way to communicate. But there is also the danger, inherent in any written communication but maybe more-so in the immediacy of the internet, that written words can be ‘read into’ and misunderstood. 

I had such an exchange recently and after a couple of exchanges, we agreed that it had escalated into something never intended on either side and the best thing to do was delete the correspondence and move forward, hopefully a little bit wiser.

So I ticked the boxes and deleted them. Gone.

That is what God does with our sins. We confess them. We are heart-sorry for doing the stuff, saying the stuff, not doing the stuff, having the wrong attitudes, judging, criticising, gossiping, etc etc. We all do it and need to come back to Him time after time.

And time after time, he ticks the box and clicks delete.

‘For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.’ Psalm 103.

As far as the east is from the west. He has removed our sins from us. He has forgiven us completely, and deleted them from his memory. 

It isn’t God who haunts us with recriminations, pointing the finger and telling us how rubbish we are. God urges us to come to him and confess, urges us with inner prompts and through our consciences, but he never condemns, never writes us off.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from us. 

Praise the Lord. Indeed, praise the Lord.