He doesn't deal with us according to our sin or repay us according to our wrongdoing, because as high as heaven is above the earth, 

that's how large God's faithful love is for those who honor him.

As far as east is from west - that's how far God has removed our sin from us.

Like a parent feels compassion for their children - that's how the LORD feels compassion for those who honor him.  

Psalm 103:10-13 CEB

Do you start to get the picture of just how big and wide and deep our God's love is?

Maybe your parents were great and this picture of the compassion of a parent helps, but for many it doesn't. If you need to imagine the best parent possible, maybe that helps. 

Maybe you can readily accept that God loves like this, but it can't apply  to me. David's song is an invitation to let the truth of who God is in just a little further, that His love for us is His choosing. 

He has already chosen.

And we are His Beloved.

And as foreign as that might feel, as difficult to grasp it's true. 

It's going to be OK.

David's pictures are the largest and the mostest that he could imagine of what God's love is, and he invites us to imagine with him just how loved we are.

Right now. 

Loved. 

#psalms

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