My dear friends with the snow falling at my house I was thinking about the wonders of... snow. Yes, snow! Something one either hates or loves but whether you despise it or enjoy it,
snow in itself is an absolute wonder of Almighty God's ETERNAL creative genius (Job 38:22-23, Psalm 104:24, Prov. 3:19).
As I was thinking of snow... the Bible verse from Isaiah 1:18 once again came to mind.
"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."
Oh my dear friends, what a wondrous ETERNAL REALITY and TRUTH to think on for the child of God as we walk through this fallen "scarlet-colored" world in our "scarlet" fallen body
(Gal. 1:4, Eph. 2:1-2, Rom. 7:7-25)!
Snow is absolutely white and beautiful altogether, pure and undefiled and up here in New England, we get our fair share of it. There is nothing more beautiful than waking up in the morning after a huge snowstorm that happens in the dark of night! The total landscape is changed and whatever was visible on the ground prior is completely covered. All you can see is the beautiful whiteness of the fallen snow and this has a message to us. Almighty God uses His creation to teach us many important lessons, the most important of these lessons is how Christ's redemptive work cleanses the fallen child of Adam - who is born in a state of transgression and is a transgressor against all that is ABSOLUTE about Almighty God
(Rom. 5:12-21). It's by faith alone in Almighty God's PERFECT LAMB and His finished WORK that the transgressor is redeemed, pardoned and cleansed by the shed RIGHTEOUS crimson-colored blood of the Messiah of Israel
(Isa. 53, Rom. 6:23, Eph. 2:8-9, Heb. 10:21-28, 1 Peter 1:19, Rev. 1:5)!
Almighty God's once PERFECT "white" creation has been HORRIFICALLY transformed and saturated into a darkened scarlet estate.
White is the easiest of all colors to be defiled while scarlet is not. From Adam's innocence to his fall, to our present-day some
6000 years later the white undefiled estate of Almighty God's original creation is anything but white as snow
(Gen. 1:31, Rom. 5:12-21). Almighty God's once PERFECT "white" creation has been HORRIFICALLY transformed and saturated into a darkened scarlet-colored estate; non-cleansable and
unable to be restored to its original estate of white (RIGHTEOUSNESS). The darker the object the less the defiling stains show themselves and such is this present world
(2 Cor. 4:3-4). The god of this world has blinded the minds of Adam's fallen unregenerated race and moral relativism and darkness is the prism in which this world views reality
(Isa. 53:6). Our world today
after 6000 years of accumulated scarlet deeds is absolutely saturated with the irremovable stains of godlessness, decadence, lawlessness, and violence and absolutely hopeless for all of humanity's unregenerated fallen remedies
(Isa. 53:6, Rom. 3). Today our global scarlet estate is received and promoted as the "norm" while the purity of Almighty God's whiteness (RIGHTEOUSNESS) is rejected and looked at as defiled and evil by this world's unregenerate inhabitants
(Isa. 5:20, John 3:19-21, 15:18, 17:14, 1 John 3:13). The world's inhabitants of today are subjectively absorbed in their fallen estate and absolutely oblivious to Almighty God's RIGHTEOUSNESS standard
(Rom. 1:18-32, 10:2-4).
My dear friends, Almighty God cries out to a scarlet-colored world today;
"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."
Oh my dear friends, do you personally know what Almighty God has done for you? God, the Father has taken our transgressions, which were innumerable, and
has washed them in the blood of His own dear Son the Lamb and has made us white as snow! When we received Christ into our hearts and do business with God as the Bible testifies and clearly teaches we are then changed from scarlet to snow white. In Christ, the child of God has been REDEEMED, JUSTIFIED and RIGHTEOUS!
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new. And
all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To
wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. Now
then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray
you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him." (2 Cor. 5:17-21)
"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" (1 Cor. 1:30)
My dear friends, may all the precious promises of Almighty God which are found in His Word for you be in your possession to personally know, experience, and enjoy.
What a wonder that though our sins were as scarlet we that are now in Christ have been made white as snow (2 Cor. 5:17-21, Eph. 2:10-22, Rev. 1:5). Oh, how we need this Divine TRUTH and REALITY today my beloved!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
DJP I.F.
The Blood of the Lamb (click on the link for the Bible verse
which speaks of Christ's precious blood)
What Must I do To Be Saved?
The Wonders of Snow -God of Wonders DVD