I have been MIA, I know. December was a nasty month for our family. One of the things that threw me into the MIA was being informed that we were being evicted out of our home because the owners were moving back in. Just before Christmas. Since then, it’s been a frenzy of searching, making decisions, planning, now packing, and finally, moving next week Saturday. 

But today, I felt a need to blog. And it’s not my usual theology based writing. Here in the Canadian west coast ( or PNW for you Americans), it is currently snowing and we’re getting a dump of snow that we don’t see very often. I live close to a highway, and generally speaking, all day every day the noise of traffic is what we hear. Big trucks, squealing brakes, sirens, etc. Today though it’s blissfully quiet.  I love that about snow. It’s silent out. Last night at around 3 a.m., I was up and decided to just open my sliding doors to the back deck, and just listen. To nothing. Granted, it’s usually not busy on the roads at 3 a.m., but the stillness of a snowy night is different.

Then this morning as I sat on my couch looking out the window, I felt the beauty of God. And it got me thinking. The world is still, calm, white and peaceful right now. Everything is being covered in white, exuding purity and beauty. While I’m sure Eden had no snow, Adam and Even certainly experienced the stillness, the calm and peaceful world as it was always meant to be. Not silent, but still. Here today though, the snow covers up the ugly, the weeds, the barren trees, the dead gardens. Covers it all in white. Making everything look good and beautiful and pure. But we know that underneath all that snow, the weeds, the barrenness is still there. A reminder that although everything looks calm and pure, the deadness is still there. 

This is a metaphor for our lives, isn’t it? In Isaiah 1:18, the LORD says, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” God Himself uses snow – uses white, and red, as a metaphor for our lives. We see our snow here and say “ya, I get it. Red- blood, big contrast to white!”. But what God is saying is that we are and will be a brighter, whiter, most pure and beautiful white than we can imagine! If we do happen to get the gift of sunshine after the snowfall, we experience an even brighter, sparkly white than now – and yet that pales in comparison to the purity and beauty of heaven – and OUR purity through the blood of Jesus!

Snow is a reminder that one day all things will be made right. We will be pure and perfect. All the darkness, sin, deception, evil that exists in our world will be covered up – or more accurately, they will be banished! Forever. Burned in the red orange of fire. We are made clean through the blood of the Lamb, made as white as snow, and seen as righteous before God. What a merciful and gracious gift – an astonishing act of sacrifice by Jesus, the God-Man! 

So when you look at snow – think of how we are made pure, white like that snow, our sins being covered by the blood of our Saviour Jesus.  Sola Deo Gloria!