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To Infinity

“To infinity and beyond”, to borrow a famous line…

Did you know that God gives us a little glimpse of what infinity is like?  He does and it’s found in Psalm 103:  “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”  (v. 12)

East is in one direction, and west is in the other. But east and west never meet.  No matter how far you continue traveling east, you would never come to a place where you start traveling west.  In fact, as long as you continue traveling east, you would be doing so forever and without end.  I think those are aspects of infinity!

Of course, that verse in the Psalm is not a lesson in direction nor is it likely intended to be an explanation of what infinity is.  It is, however, a wonderful reassurance that when God deals with our sins, He really deals with them. He removes them as far as the east is from the west.

Another glimpse of something we really can’t measure is also found in Psalm 103:  “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him.”  (v. 11)

This is not east or west but up and down.  It is a statement of the overwhelming and mind-boggling distance from earth to the stars (the heavens).  The distance is incalculable and unimaginable.  But again, it is not necessarily a lesson in direction nor is it an explanation of that which is unimaginable but it is a lesson of God’s love.  His love stretches even further than that which to us in incalculable.

And my desire in writing this is not to draw our attention to directions nor is it to attempt to try to explain infinity.  My desire is to mirror, as best I can, what the Psalmist was trying to do, that is, to draw attention to God.  After all, what can be of greater importance than to know that God’s love stretches further than the greatest distances that we can ever imagine and that God takes care of our sins to the extent that they are infinitely removed from us.

With God, it is “to infinity and beyond!”

 

 

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