Here we are in the middle of winter. Most people want snow for Christmas, but that is about it. When we come to February, there seems to be a longing for spring. Warmer weather, flowers, no slippery roads, summer activities, etc. etc. I admit I love the seasons in Michigan, but if it was in my power, I would shorten winter. Someone said that the way to shorten winter is to borrow money that is due in the spring! Genesis 8:22 states, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 states, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Winter has its purpose! “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” is certainly talking about snow for the holidays. It has a beauty all its own.
“Falling snow brings a peace like no other I’ve ever known.” “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” “The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?” “The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” These are quotes from a variety of people. We can certainly identify with them. Let me give you some quotes from our Heavenly Father and see if you can identify with them. In Psalms 51:7, David says to God, “… wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” David certainly was not speaking of a physical cleansing, but a spiritual cleansing. David had sinned and he was asking God for forgiveness. God’s response is found in Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
God’s favorite word in the Bible is “come.” John 6:37 says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” Matthew 11:28 says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” The most reasonable thing any man can do is come to God through faith in Jesus Christ. John 14:6 says, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
The song, “I shall be whiter than snow” by James Nicholson contains a verse that says,
Lord Jesus, Thou seest I patiently wait;
Come now and within me a new heart create;
To those who have sought Thee Thou never said’st “No”—
Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let Him make something beautiful of your life.