This picture was taken on my back porch in North Texas yesterday. This doesn’t happen very often where we live. In fact, the Texas Highway Department doesn’t own much snow removal equipment. When this happens, everything shuts down for a day or so. It will then warm up and the roads will clear and we go back to business as usual.

What is your reaction to a “Snow Day?” I had mixed feelings about them when I was working, because I usually had things that “I just had to get done” and didn’t like the weather dictating what I could and could not do. On the other hand, it was nice to have time to spend with my family.

On this Snow Day as Cheryl and I lazed around the house, I find myself thinking of the words in Psalm 46:

Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

It was a reminder that He is always in control of all things, whether I realize and remember that or not. The same is true for your life. God is in control. He is God and you are not. He deserves to be exalted by us.

Something else I think of every time I see snow is God’s promise through the prophet:

Isaiah 1:18 “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” 

That’s what God did for us through the blood of Jesus, poured out to cleanse us from our sins. He covered us. When you put your faith in Jesus, it alters the way God sees you. He now sees you in a different way. No longer does He look upon the filth of your sin. Instead, He sees you as completely covered with the goodness of Jesus, allowing you to be His forgiven child.

Oh, how blest it is to know; Were as scarlet my transgression,
It shall be as white as snow By Thy blood and bitter Passion;
For these words I now believe; Jesus sinners doth receive.
(Lutheran Service Book #609, stanza 5)