Your Steadfast Love Is Mine

I found myself, again today,
Hiding my face in shame
For sins long past, that I’ve confessed,
Yet, for which I feel blame.
 
I know that You’ve forgiven me,
Washed my sins in Your blood,
But I still feel those sins, some days,
Sweep me up in their flood.
 
Your sacrifice, Your cleansing grace
Has cast them far from me.
Why then do I still cling to them
When You have set me free.
 
Did Peter weep with shame each time
He recalled Calvary?
Did Paul feel grief when he recalled
The man he used to be?
 
I know that You have cast my sin
As far away from me
As the heavens are from the earth.
Too far for me to see.
 
Yet, now and then I think it helps
That I recall my sin,
Then lift my voice in prayer that I
Won’t be that me again.
 
With that reminder, I then need
To let go what You’ve cast
As far away as east from west,
Let go of what is past
And hold instead to what is mine,
Your love true and steadfast!
 
Psalm 103:11-12
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. 

This beautiful photo of heaven and earth is a gift from KK, from his recent trip to Jamaica