Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Not much is new with me. I am just taking one day at a time and trying to survive classes. We are down to three and a half week of classes left and I am down to about 11 assignments left. I am getting more and more excited for spring and especially spring break. I did officially get registered for my final two classes of my seminary career next quarter. My friends are quite jealous that I only have two classes in our final quarter.
I just wanted to share with you what I have been thinking a lot about lately. I normally pick one psalm to kind of reflect on for a couple days. Living with them individually for a decent length of time really brings them to life for me. The psalm I have been stuck on for almost two weeks now is Psalm 103. It is such a beautiful psalm. I have been especially fascinated with verses 8 to 12. God is slow to anger but abounding in steadfast love. He does not deal with our sins or give us the punishment we deserve. Then there is this beautiful image of as far as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His steadfast love for us. We have sent probes to Mars and still have not been able to reach the limits of where the heavens begin. His love is truly so great we can never even begin to fully understand it. And then He removes our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west. No if you really wanted to be scientific, you could Google the circumference of the earth from the date line back around to the date line and that would I suppose be the technical distance between the east and the west. But I really think the psalmist here is being more poetic than scientific. The same way when you look up at the sky, you have no idea how far it really goes, we really have no idea how great the Lord's love for us is. And the same for the east and the west. Especially being a Midwest kid who has been in the open prairie, when you are standing there and you look to the east and then look to the west, you can't being to guess how many miles the eye can see before the horizon each way. And yet, if you started walking east, the horizon never gets closer, and if you start walking west again the horizon never seems to get closer. In each direction, east continues to go farther east and west continues to go farther west. There is no limit to how far east is from the west. We cannot imagine how great God's love for us is and there is no limit to how far He has removed our sins from us through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you see the true Gospel beauty in this poetic imagery of the psalmist, you really do want to say, "Bless the Lord, o my soul!" In Jesus name, Amen.
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