Snow Day!

On this snowy Friday morning, I figured that I would take a small break from my normal routine of reading the book of Acts and do a little devotion on snow.  It may seem a bit crazy to do a devotion on the light fluffy stuff but give me a minute and hopefully you understand where I'm coming from.

For some of us we're probably fed up with the whole snow thing.  That's often what happens when the snow sits on the ground for over a month without melting.  We're now on something like day 7 of snow days in a year when we only get 3 approved by the Ohio governor.  This all makes for many happy for the moment school children.  But what does all of this white fluff have to do with the bible?

Snow is a pretty important theme in the bible.  Perhaps you've heard the saying as white as snow.  This saying is critical for us as Christians.  You see the idea behind white as snow is the way the snow looks this morning.  It's perfectly white.  It hasn't been driven on.  It has no salt and grime in it. 

Now I'm anything but perfect.  I'm not as white as snow. I'm often grimey, dirty, covered in the gunk of life.  But in Christ none of that matters.  The sin and wrongdoing all cover and infect my life with the same ugliness that this snow will soon be infested with. 

In our lives as believers in Christ, we know that it's not about our doing, saying, or even believing that makes us white as snow.  It's the work of Jesus that makes us white.  It's his death and resurrection that turn our sin stained lives into beautiful, white, and even perfect lives in Christ.  When God sees us, he no longer sees the dirty stuff of our sin - he sees the perfection of his son.  That means that all of our wrongs and dirt have been removed (not covered - removed).  There's no residue left from our sin.  It's as if the sin never even existed. 

So today go play in the snow.  If you don't want to go play in the snow that's fine - just look at it and realize that this is how God sees you.  Perfectly pure.  Free of all imperfections.  And the great thing about this, it's not conditional. There's nothing that you or I could do to make God love us any less (or more). 

So today enjoy your snow day!

Lord - thank you for snow!  For the reminder that it gives us of the perfection that you give us in your son Jesus.  Help us to rejoice in the snow that we see outside this morning.  Amen.