AS WHITE AS SNOW

As we drove home the rain started or at least that is what we thought in the beginning, however Vanessa did not turn on the windshield wipers. It took a minute for it to register. Nothing was sticking to the window! It was all bouncing away! This was not rain. It was snow or sleet or fine hail, but not rain. The car’s temperature reading for the outside indicated 39 degrees. Turns out, it was sleet (with some snow mixed in).

The temperature meant the snow and sleet would not be sticking very soon on the asphalt, but the ride was fun none the less. Occasionally we would lower the windows to listen to the muffled quietness created when you drive down the road on snow.

Saddened that the sleet and snow was not sticking, imagine our surprise when we turned down our mile long dirt drive to find it covered a quarter of an inch deep in snow and sleet! It was so new and fresh. We were absolutely the first to leave our tracks in it. No deer had yet crossed the road anywhere. No dogs or rabbits or coyotes or raccoons had ventured on it. It was pure, clean and white.

Then it hit me… what God said in Isaiah 1.18, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow”. Our road is dirty and dusty. Our car stays the same. When it rains the road is a muddy mess, but not last night! It had been transformed by a beauty from above. It was not dusty and dirty. It was not a muddy mess, it had been totally changed.

The same can happen to you. God has the power to take a life dirtied by sin and make it clean and white again. And to Him, it is as easy as sending the sleet and snow He sent last night.