God remembers - He forgives all our sins

God remembers that we are dust..... He created us, no? And He knows that we are weak and sinful -- and He forgives all our sins.
A little foreshadowing in verses 2-3:

Praise the Lord, my soul,    and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins (v 2-3a)

Today, let's concentrate on these verses from our Psalm:

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. (Psalm 103:11-12)

How great is God's love?
This is the old meaning of great -- not the over-used word that slips out of our mouths so frequently...."that's great!" we tell our friends when they have something noteworthy to divulge. No, this is more along the lines of how "big" is God's love. And that is a really good question, especially for those who are convicted of their sins and need to really know that God's love is big enough to forgive them.

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:4-7)

It's a great thing to know when someone has slipped away from God and neglected prayer and worship for years and years.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

One way to visualize this is to imagine that we had a rocket ship that could somehow navigate galaxies, stars, suns, and more, and not take 4,392 years (or more) to travel to each place. No matter how far we went, God's love would still be there!

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.  (Deuteronomy 7:9)

To a thousand generations..... that is a God with a great capacity for love. His love is broader, deeper, larger than anything else we will ever experience!

Sometimes when I study verse 12, I'm reminded of an old movie, Around the World in Eighty Days. Phineas Fogg rashly accepts a wager and sets out around the world.... along the way he utilizes steam ships, hot air balloons, trains, elephants, and more. Traveling ever eastward, he finally does make it home in the prescribed time (it's a good movie, made in 1956; I encourage you to check it out.)
I mentioned that he traveled eastward. Did you know that no matter how far east you went, you would never find the west? The labels just don't really apply! You can circumnavigate the globe, but the farther east you go, the farther you are from the west! That's the size of God's love: He forgives us, and He lifts up our sins and puts them so far away from us that we could never, ever find them if we searched for a thousand years!
They are gone forever.
Amen?
Yes, amen!
My sins can never come back to haunt me again. Even Satan can't bring 'em back!

Our God is "slow to anger" in verse 8, and He "does not harbor His anger forever" in verse 9. Verse 10 told us that He "does not treat us as our sins deserve" and now, in verses 11 and 12, we learn that "so great is His love.... so far has He removed our sins" from us.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!