Today’s Scripture: Romans 6:14

“For sin will have no dominion over you.”

In Micah 7:19 we find another powerful metaphor of how God deals with our sin through Jesus Christ: “you will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”

The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn’t just drop them over the side; he hurls them as something to be rid of and forgotten.

God is eager to cast away our sins. Because the sacrifice of his Son is of such infinite value, he delights to apply it to sinful men and women. God is not a reluctant forgiver, but a joyous one. His justice having been satisfied and his wrath having been exhausted, he’s now eager to extend his forgiveness to all who trust in his Son as their propitiatory sacrifice.

What a picture of the way God treats our sins—he hurls them overboard. “And then,” as Corrie ten Boom, a dear saint of the last century, used to say, “God put up a sign saying, ‘no fishing allowed.’” She knew that we tend to drag up our old sins, that we tend to live under a vague sense of guilt. She knew we aren’t nearly as vigorous in appropriating God’s forgiveness as he is in extending it. Consequently, instead of living in the sunshine of God’s forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

This is why God gave the Jews the picture of the scapegoat in Leviticus 16:20-22, symbolically bearing away their sins. In addition to being a picture of what Jesus would do at the cross, it was an assurance to the Israelites that God had indeed honored the sacrifice of the slain goat and had put away their sins. (Excerpt taken from The Gospel for Real Life)

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