As we drove to church tonight, Wednesday, February 27, I couldn’t help but notice the snow. I’m not referring to the few seldom flakes that were still trying to fall from the gray, winter skies, but instead, the flakes that had piled together to blanket the ground. I began to think how beautiful it was, how clean it looked. As I thought of this, some things came to mind—mainly how clean and white the ground was. This was the same ground that looks green in the summer, brown and dead in the fall and winter, dusty when it is dry, and muddy when it is wet. Today, it looks spotless and clean…it’s perfectly white.
This is a lot like our relationship with God. We are like the ground. When left to ourselves, we can’t do much. We are influenced by the seasons of sin. When the “weather” is right, we seem to prosper in it just like the green summer grass. However, when the season changes, and it always does, we wilt and die. No matter what we do for ourselves or what works we try to cover ourselves with, we’re still basically just “dirt”. We have that old dirty sinful nature that we were born with.
Now, about the snow…thank God for the snow, and the little reminders that He sends us. The snow represents the blood of Christ. The millions and millions of little snowflakes all piled together to make one large blanket of white that coves all of the landscape so that all you see is white. No mud, no dirt, no cracks, no flaws, no weeds—just clean, pure white! Jesus’ blood does the same thing to our sins…they’re covered! When we come to Christ, the drops of the blood that He shed on the cross covers all of the “dirt” so when God looks at the saved, He sees us as clean, pure, and white as snow. Thank God for the snow, the reminder, but most of all….THANK GOD FOR THE BLOOD!
In Prayer,
PJ (Pastor Jason)