Lessons from a Snowflake

From: Messages of God's Love: 1979

Narrator: Chris Genthree

From: Messages of God's Love: 1967

• 2 min. read • grade level: 7

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 38:22²²Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, (Job 38:22). Let us seek to learn some gospel lessons from the snow.

GUILT-“Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psa. 51:7⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: 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.” 1 John 1:7⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).

GRACE-“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isa. 1:18¹⁸Come 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. (Isaiah 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 13:38,39³⁸Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: ³⁹And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (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 to glory and dominion Forever and ever. Amen.” Rev. 1:5,6⁵And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, ⁶And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:5‑6).

GODLINESS-“Her Nazarites were purer than snow.” Lam. 4:7⁷Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: (Lamentations 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.

GLORY-“His raiment... white as snow.” Mark 9:3³And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. (Mark 9:3). This is how the Lord Jesus appeared “in glory.” “Robes made white” (Rev. 7:14¹⁴And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Revelation 7:14)) is a description of the redeemed.

ML-02/04/1979

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