Our picture today shows a variety of snowflakes magnified under the microscope. Who would have ever thought that the millions of these flakes that fall from above, have all so many various shapes and formations. But we need not wonder, for they are the workmanship of God, and like all that He does they are perfect.
Thousands of years ago, Job was asked the question, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?” Job 38:22. Let us seek to learn some gospel lessons from the snow.
1.GUILT— “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psalm 51:7, is the expression of a guilty sinner, who has learned his vileness before God, and longs to be clean and pure before Him. By one means only can a sinner be cleansed—by the blood of Jesus. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” I John 1: 7.
2.GRACE— “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isa. 1:18. This is God’s word of assurance to the sinner who comes to Him, and to accept His forgiveness as proclaimed in the gospel. “Through this Man (Christ Jesus) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by Him all that believe are justified.” Acts 13:38,39. No snowflake falling from the heavens is whiter in God’s sight than the sinner washed from his sins. “Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,... to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” Rev. 1:5,6.
3.GODLINESS— “Her Nazarites were purer than snow.” Lam. 4: 7. Those who are saved through the blood of Jesus are set apart unto godliness, to be all for Him, to serve Him here, separate from the world, living as heavenly people on earth. The true Nazarite is one who is separated unto Christ.
4.GLORY— “His raiment... white as snow.” Mark 9:3. This is how the Lord Jesus appeared “in glory.” “Robes made white” (Rev. 7: 14) is a description of the redeemed.
ML 11/26/1967