Snow, Snow, Snow

With the joy of building a house and moving a very short distance from the church building, I have had to do something everyone else does every week, but something I have not done for almost 6 years.  It is the task of getting in a car and driving to the church building for worship during our service times.  Yesterday morning, I was greeted with snowy and icy windows and frozen windshield wipers.  I stood by my wife's van, trying to clear it for her and the children when they would come after my departure.  I had my suit on and it was cold.  My hands were freezing, my feet were cold, and I was about to slip and fall at anytime in my dress shoes.  And in the midst of it, God began to remind me of some passages that just made me smile in delight.

So, here are a few thoughts for you as you scrape windows and defrost cars and shovel sidewalks and deal with all that winter brings for us in Kentucky.

1.  God is still Sovereign, even over the snow.  When Job and his friends were trying to figure out why such calamity had come upon them, they thought maybe God was not really in control of everything.  Well, God answered that question forcefully in the last part of the book and He asks them in Job 38:22:  Have you entered the storehouses of the snow?  The answer is no.  We, at best, predict what we think will happen, but we have no control over the snow or any aother weather pattern.  God is completely Sovereign over all things, even the snow that falls on the ground.  When I scrape my windows again this week, I will thank Him that He has my life and every detail of it in His hands!

2.  God brings what we need in our life, exactly when we need it.  Proverbs 26:1 says, Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is fitting for a fool.  When the snow falls, it only falls in winter.  I am writing this in February and not in July.  So, when you shovel your sidewalks, let it serve as a reminder that whatever situation or issue you are dealing with in your life at the moment, God has allowed it at the time you needed it for purposes that He is fully aware of.  Let that reality and truth guide and direct you to honor and glorify Him as you walk through this season of life.

3.  I have been forgiven completely and fully in Christ!  Isaiah 1:18:  Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord:  though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.  Instead of being frustrated at the snow, look at it and rejoice that your sins have been washed as white as snow (pure) in the Lord Jesus Christ.  The snow gives us a reminder to rejoice in the forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ and Him alone.  If you don't know this wonderful forgiveness, I invite you to call upon His name and cry out to Him and ask that He would make your sins, that are as red as crimson, turn white as snow.  He will be faithful to you if you call out to Him.

So, if the snow flies again tonight as they are predicting...I will sit back and rejoice in God's Sovereign rule over my life and all my circumstances and I will worship Him because I have been forgiven and my sins have been made "white as snow."

Blessings,

Bro. Matt