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Forgiveness: like a stone dropped into the depths of the sea

The following details come from The Mariana Trench website.  The average depths of the earth’s oceans are as follows: Arctic Ocean (3,407 feet deep); Indian Ocean (12,740 feet deep); Atlantic Ocean (12,254 feet deep); Pacific Ocean (13,740 feet deep).

The deepest point in each of the oceans is as follows: the Arctic Ocean’s Eurasian Basin (17,881 feet deep); the Indian Ocean’s Java Trench (25,344 feet deep); the Atlantic Ocean’s Puerto Rico Trench (28,374 feet deep); the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench (36,201 feet deep).

To understand this depth, if Mount Everest (the tallest point on earth at 29,035 feet) were set in the Mariana Trench, there would still be 7,166 feet (more than 1.3 miles) of water left above it.

Many applications can be made, but consider this.  When God told Israel that He would forgive them, He promised to “cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19), plunged into eternal oblivion, never to be remembered again.  God took care of Israel’s enemy (Egyptian army) this way in Exodus 15:4-5, and He’ll take care of our enemy (sin) in this same way.