This morning I woke up to this:
As I look past the humor in that I’ve experienced two green Christmases in a row and am now experiencing a white Easter, I see God’s sense of humor unveiled in the lessons He teaches us through snow.
White is the color of purity. A blanket of white covers all the drab, brown, dead plants, and it reminds me that Christ covers all of our dirty and stained lives to make us pure before the Father.
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. (Rev. 3:4-5)
Snow symbolizes cleanliness from sin. The blood of Christ is what cleanses us, and that is what we remembered in the crucifixion on Good Friday. But when we are cleansed by that blood, we are made clean, as white as snow; and that is what is symbolized by the snow on the ground this Easter morning.
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:7)
“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 as crimson, they shall be like wool. (Isaiah 1:18)
Snow (and rain) bring forth life. As God sends rain and snow down from heaven, it waters the earth, and as the earth is watered, it becomes alive again. We see this through all of winter and springtime as snowstorms and heavy downpours ready the land, then plants come to life again, new flowers bloom, and trees produce fruit. New life is formed.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10-11)
Beauty. I think snow is beautiful, even when it comes “out of season.” And this snowy white Easter morning, I see beauty instead of a mess, God’s glory being revealed instead of chaos in weather patterns. My God certainly knows how to get His point across – all is made new today because of the power of the resurrection, the power that comes because the grave is empty. And that, my friends, is beautiful.
