I am not a fan of the cold. Not even a little bit. The only good thing that the cold weather brings is snow. I love snow. If it could snow at, say, 50 degrees (and actually maintain snowflake form) I'd be a happy camper!
Just over a week ago I woke up at 4:30 in the morning. Wide awake. My eyes focused on my Bible sitting on top of the dresser. I quietly got up, grabbed the Bible and went (read: tried not to stumble) downstairs. I paused by our living room window, our curtains don't actually cover them, they drape around them, we have a streetlight right outside the house, and I looked outside to a blanket of beautiful (albeit cold) white snow with LARGE snowflakes falling... and it was like God was saying "This is what I am doing to your life. Making it as white as snow." It was beautiful. The snow. The analogy. That God wants to do that to me. That He cares enough, not just for me, but for you, for everyone to want to make us white as snow!
My brain was not functioning enough that early in the morning to think "Go, get your camera." So, I took this today, and it's obviously the back yard. But the snow is *relatively* untouched there. And that morning, when I woke up, it was still untouched. The plow trucks hadn't been out yet.
I sat here yesterday afternoon on my bottom steps - which puts me right in front of the window looking out on the street. I watched in fascination as God's power and might came down in HUGE snowflake form, yet again. And I smiled. Because I was reminded that Jesus made all of us white as snow. It's ours for the taking. All you really have to do is claim it.
Josh, my brother, shoveled the snow just before Cory got home from work.
"Come now, let's settle this," says the Lord. "Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are crimson, I will make them as white as wool." Isaiah 1:18
"6 He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down. 7 Then everyone stops working so they can watch his power." Job 37:6-7
This morning, we woke up to a white blanket enveloping everything. It kind of made me feel warm and fuzzy. What a Mighty God we serve!
I was getting ready to go join Cory and our "furry" daughters in the snow... but he came in and informed me "It's really cold." And we all know how I feel about the cold!!
