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He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. --- Psalm 103:12 East and west can never meet. This is a symbolic portrait of God's forgiveness: When he forgives our sin, he separates it from us and doesn’t even remember it. We need never wallow in the past, for God forgives and forgets. We tend to dredge up the ugly past, but God has wiped our record clean. If we are to follow God, we must model his forgiveness. When we forgive another we must also forget the sin. Otherwise we have not truly forgiven. --- Life Application Study Bible notes