“He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 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. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.” (Psalm 103)
Our shadow is always with us and for some of us this is an example of the feeling that sometimes our sins seem to follow us everywhere we go. Every time I think about this I think of this passage from Psalm 103 and how powerfully redemptive it is. Sometimes I think we forget that our Heavenly Father is just that a Father in all things. As a Father he shows compassion as a parent would, but the compassion that He shows is far more than we could ever fathom of giving.
Shadow is a term that is interpreted sometimes as a bad thing, but let us think that what Jesus has taught and the “Shadow” that followed him and as we follow him may we soak up all that was in him, and by the same token think of the shadow that you are leaving. The legacy that we are leaving for those that watch the way we live in the Lord Jesus Christ. Shadows do not always have to be a bad. Just like the Father has shown us let our shadows be filled with compassion.
And take heart and know that “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.”
Amen.