"Snow"
“Snow”
Blessings Folk!
Locally we have experienced a weather time that is rather rare - snow.
Schools, businesses, etc. have been closed for two days. Such occurs every twenty years or so.
I believe there are some things for us to learn in such times.
Folk notice such, though often they give no heed to the truth.
A good blanket of snow does some things…
- brings peace...certainly you have noticed the quiet, the peace. The animals themselves tread lightly and quietly. One can hear the strength of silence in the snow cover.
- snow brings sustenance...some in the immediate, much later. Ground water tables are patiently and gradually restored.
- snow brings a change of pace...several have noted how excited they were to be able to spend time with family, friends, etc. The cares and concerns of the world are literally “put on ice.”
- snow brings a thermal blanket of protection to that in the ground
There is more.
Snow is a picture of what the Lord does in our lives.
Isa 1:18
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
KJV
Ps 51:7
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
KJV
We are forgiven.
Though our sins are as red...we are as “white as snow…as wool.”
Snow is a vivid reminder of the purity of our salvation...the covering of salvation...as a fine, pure wool garment.
The Lord guides the snow…
Ps 147:16
16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
KJV
Job 37:5-6
5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
KJV
As with the snow, our salvation if from the Most High.
There are treasures in snow...especially within the “science” realm...I will not bore you with the details, but much about creation can be gleaned from snow. God asked Job if he had “entered into” the treasures of snow. There are treasures and mysteries there. Also, note the reference to hailstones, especially the timing...this is an amazing reference to end-time events yet to come...
Job 38:22-23
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
KJV
There are treasures of our salvation into which we are to enter.
Snow praises the Lord…fulfilling His Word...
Ps 148:7-8
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
KJV
Snow is refreshing…
Prov 25:13
13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
KJV
We are the faithful messenger of the Most High.
We are to refresh...even as the snow.
Snow is a picture of the Word…
Isa 55:10-11
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
KJV
One more...snow is used to describe the Lord…
Rev 1:14
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
KJV
So, as we experience the snow, let us remember…
- salvation
- the power and wonder of the Lord
- to praise the Lord, even as the snow
- to bring refreshing
- to allow the Word of the Lord to bring forth fruit
- the Lord is returning
Seize the change of schedule and allow a time of refreshing from the Most High.
Pray for those on the Prayer List…
http://www.prayerline.tv/
Blessings!
Local Precept folk...we will begin the next course on Tuesday, January 18...weather allowing.
