White as snow...

In finding love in everything this year, I found myself loving this snow we have. I'm not typically one to enjoy the snow, in fact when I see it I usually say 'GRRR, why do we stay in Ohio?'. Well this is a new year, my year of love. Let me share the love I found in the snow. The snow is beautiful.

The Lord even used snow as a metaphor in Scripture:

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. Isaiah 1:18


He wanted the people to know that by coming to Him and turning from sin, that sin is cleansed from us. It seems the people were sinning against God, they were still sacrificing, but were living sinfully. They didn't do deeds for the will of God, or for the love of God. God's love is pure and clean, His desire is to love us and for us to be His. God is love. Our sin can be pardoned, and made white as snow, if we come to Him and abide in Him.

So the snow is a remembrance of how our life can be clean, our sin pardoned by our Father in heaven who loves us. His son was the ultimate sacrifice. May the snow remind all of us of that sacrifice He made on the cross, so our sins can go from scarlet (vivid red/immoral) to white as snow (clean/pardoned).