Whiter than Snow

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Snow. Many people, even those living in warmer areas, have seen it at least once in their lifetime. While few of us enjoy driving through it or shoveling it out of our driveways, there is no doubt that snow is supremely beautiful. When it falls through the air. When it covers the trees. When it covers the mountains in dazzling majesty.

The Bible has much to say about snow, but some of its metaphors might surprise you. First, we see that God has complete control over the snow and all other weather, for He controls its storehouses and sends it to earth by His power.

“For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour” (Job 37:6).

Snow therefore reveals God’s might and can sometimes remind us of His awesome fury.

“He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?” (Psalms 147:17).

Someday, the holy Judge whom God has appointed, the Lord Jesus Christ, clothed in garments whiter than snow, will return to scatter and destroy all His enemies—those who do not obey the Gospel of Christ (II Thessalonians 1:7-9).

Yet, for those who cry out in agony over their sin and turn to Christ for mercy and forgiveness, God offers complete cleansing. David prayed, “ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow" (Psalms 51:7). The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, for He took the punishment we deserve for our sin by dying on the Cross and rising again. When we turn from our sin and trust in Jesus, God promises that our sins, though now as red as scarlet, will become white as snow (Isaiah 1:18).

As a Christian, maybe you have made mistakes. Does guilt plague you?

“The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).

On the day of judgment, the true believer will stand holy and blameless before God, his heart covered and washed by the atoning blood of Christ (Colossians 1:22). He will be whiter than snow.

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