this changes everything

One overwhelming sensation that comes from a snowstorm is the change it brings to everything you can see outside.  All that is familiar is covered or adorned with white clothing from heaven.  Trees, roads, houses and fields are re-crafted into a place of imagination and for a while we must stop all that are doing and rediscover the wonder of play.  The snow is so clean, so pure and appears fluffy light until you begin to face reality and shovel it from driveways and sidewalks.  In the space of several hours the snow comes and transforms the world from powers above us.  Snow is one of those things that would be very hard for a blind person to appreciate.  You need to be so familiar with the everyday appearance of your world to be fully stunned by the white blanket's sudden arrival.  A life that is transformed by the power of Heaven through the covering of Christ might be seen in a similar way.  A person can be so affected by the arrival of the Lord that everything appears changed.  The terrain may follow the same contours but it has a new freshness and refreshing purity.  That which is familiar has been enhanced and yet there is much that is new.  Certainly the snow of Heaven stops us in our tracks, changes our routine, and causes us to see the world differently...as we are seen differently by the world.  A snowstorm is like the coming of Christ but He will not melt and run off...His change is lasting.

 

Isaiah 55:¹⁰ " For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
      And do not return there,
      But water the earth,
      And make it bring forth and bud,
      That it may give seed to the sower
      And bread to the eater,
       ¹¹ So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
      It shall not return to Me void,
      But it shall accomplish what I please,
      And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

 

blessings,

Rob Smith