HOW the children rejoice when the first snow of the season comes. They like to see the trees, house tops and ground covered with the clean white snow. But it is like everything else in this world, it pleases for a little while and very soon they become tired of it—it cannot satisfy.
But God has given us that which can satisfy and cause us to rejoice continually.
First, I would write to you about what Scripture says about snow and what rest and satisfaction comes from knowing we can be made whiter than snow.
Job says, “If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; yet shalt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.” There was nothing so clean, on the earth, as snow water, so if one were to be washed in that, it could only clean the outside but would never make one fit for God. But there is another Scripture which says, ‘“PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP; AND I SHALL BE CLEAN: WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW.’ Ps. 51:7.
What you may ask, does it mean to be “purged with hyssop”? Hyssop is a very small plant and is used in Scripture in contrast to the cedars of Lebanon. The cedar is the great tall tree. So if we are to be purged with hyssop it must be to take your true place as nothing before God—-as one that has nothing to bring to God but sin Then what is it to be washed? It is the blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin and those in heaven sing that song; Unto that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.”
So that which can wash us in God’s sight and make us whiter than snow, is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is for everybody, but it is only those who believe in the Lord Jesus who get the benefit. What rest and satisfaction it gives to the heart to know our sins are all put away and we are clean before God — made whiter than snow.
Once you know what that is, you will never want it to be changed and you will rejoice too that God will never change it. You may be very glad to see the first snow of the seasons and glad to see the last snow and know that spring will soon come. That is the way with all here — constantly changing and we are never satisfied with it; but what God has done for us through the Lord Jesus Christ, causes us to rejoice and be satisfied forever.
Messages of God’s Love 1/15/1905