The Lord speaks to us this morning through the prophet
Jeremiah, “I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no
more.” Given what is sometimes the stinginess of our ability to forgive from the depths of our
hearts, God’s forgiveness is almost unfathomably exquisite, astounding in its
breadth and boundlessness. “As far as the east is from the west, so far does he
remove our transgressions from us,” says the Psalmist. Sin is real, and
confessing it does not mean nothing wrong has happened. But what privilege and
joy to humbly confess our transgressions to the Lord, only to have them forgiven- buried,
erased and forgotten by divine Mercy.
