Freely Speaking Audio Devotion

Welcome to Freely Speaking, an OHSOFREE devotional ministry where we share our hearts and trust God for transformation.  

Today, Tara Thompson reminds us that when God forgives, He completely removes our sin.   

“For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:11–12 KJV). 

Have you ever committed a sin that stays in your mind long after you’ve repented and received forgiveness from the Lord?  

When I was growing up, my pastor used to sing a song called “Thanks to Calvary.”  One of the main lines in the song lets us know, “Thanks to Calvary, we don't come here anymore.” It was such a beautiful reminder that when we are saved, we don’t have to live in places of guilt or shame from our past. 

There is a strange burden we carry as humans: the need to remember what God has chosen to forget. We replay conversations, rehearse failures, and revisit moments we wish we could undo. Sometimes our own minds drag our past forward without invitation. Sometimes other people do it. We let voices pull us backward into places where grace has already emptied, but we don’t have to live there anymore.   

Psalm 103 reminds us that God does not merely cover our sin. He removes it. And He doesn’t remove it a short distance, where it might still be found if searched for carefully. He removes it “as far as the east is from the west”—a distance that can never be closed, never reversed, never retraced. East and west do not meet again. 

If God has removed your transgressions, then guilt no longer has legal authority over you. Conviction may lead you to repentance—but guilt that lingers after forgiveness is not from Him. It is a place He has already left behind. 

Because where God has forgotten, you are no longer required to remember.  

What would change if you let go of the guilt that God no longer remembers? 

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