Journey Day 191

Do you ever feel like your mistakes are too big for God to forgive? Like the mistake you made will never be forgotten? I felt like that today as I was driving home. I was thinking about some bad decisions I had made, and I was letting that bring me down. I discovered I still haven't even forgiven myself for what I've done. I flipped through the radio trying to find a christian radio station, and I came upon a station that was playing this song:

East to West

Here I am Lord and I'm drowning
In your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me 
I yearn for peace and rest
I don't want to end up where you found me 
It echoes in my mind 
Keeps me awake tonight 

I know you cast my sin as far as
The east is from the west
And I stand before you now 
As though I've never sinned but today 
I feel like I'm just one mistake away 
From you leaving me this way

Jesus can you show me 
Just how far the east is from the west 
Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other 

I start the day, the war begins 
Endless reminding of my sins 
Time and time again 
Your truth is drowned by the storm I'm in 
Today I feel like I'm just one mistake away 
From You leaving me this way 

Jesus can you show me 

Just how far the east is from the west 

Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been

Come rising up in me again 

In the arms of your mercy I find rest

Cause you know just how far the East is from the West

From one scarred hand to the other

I know you've washed me white 

Turned my darkness into light 

I need your peace to get me through 

To get me through this night 

I can't live by what I feel 

But by the truth Your word reveals 

I'm not holding on to you 

But you're holding onto me 

You're holding on to me 

Jesus, You know just how far 

The East is from the West

I don't have to see the man I've been 

Come rising up in me again 

In the arms of your mercy I find rest

(The arms of your mercy I find rest)

Cause you know just how far the East is from the West

From one scarred hand to the other 


Even though I can't seem to forget my sin, and let go of it, God already has. He has cast my sins as far as the east is from the west. I think it's time for me to do the very same!

Psalm 103:12
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."