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Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD?"
We all need forgiveness
As one who loves the snow, I can’t say I have been disappointed with the amount of the stuff God has seen fit to bless us with this winter. I know that perhaps that’s not the way everyone sees it especially the elderly, but I love it. I love the way it transforms the whole landscape, turning even the ordinary into something beautiful. I love seeing it come down in great chunks, millions of snowflakes effortlessly floating down to increase the covering on the earth; every single one of them different in structure. I love being the first person to walk or drive through it, and the crunchy sound it makes beneath my feet or tyres. I love the stillness and quietness that appears when snow is on the ground, a different quietness, one that cannot be experienced at any other time. Many times over the past few years I have been disappointed as I listened to the weather forecast and news of snow in other parts of the country while here in Colchester not a single flake fell. On the occasions that it did snow it was all gone by the same evening. I don’t know if my children really believed me when I told them “When I was a kid we had snow around for days”. Well this year was different, the snow did come, and lots of it, and it did stay around for days on two separate occasions. One of the things that will stick in my mind however, is not something that I or anyone for that matter physically saw with their own eyes. I’m talking about that amazing satellite picture of Britain covered in white from Lands End to John O’Groats that we saw on the news and in many newspapers. If you never saw it a quick Google should bring up many sites with this image. What’s amazing is that while Britain is totally covered in white, from underneath the cloud cover you can clearly see that Ireland remains green and unaffected. I suppose that when thinking of Snow the verse that comes to mind is Isaiah 1 v 18 "Come now, and 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 be as wool.
Once dealt with, God pictures our sin as being white as snow. In other words we are pure before Him because the blood of Jesus doesn’t just cover our sin, like the blood sacrifice in the Old Testament, it completely washes it away. It amazes me how some people can hear the message of salvation and still be unaffected. We all need to be forgiven, to let Jesus turn the ordinary into something beautiful. As we come into this Easter season one question we all must ask ourselves is this.
Are my sins in God’s eyes still like scarlet or are they white as snow?
Because Jesus died on the cross, bearing the punishment for the sin of the world we can be white as snow. I trust and pray that this is the experience of all who read this.
Love Kevin Little