White as Snow!

    Greetings in Christ Jesus!  Some of you may not like winter, you may even dread the cold, snow and ice of winter.  However, I am sure most of you by now know I absolutely love it!  I love the cold, I love the snow, I love winter!  This morning I woke up early to the snow falling so beautifully.  We got a couple inches in a couple hours.  It was one of those perfect snows, big heavy flakes, falling nicely with no wind, and puffing up everything white.  Then it stopped for quite awhile and gave the road crews a chance to catch up.  Now it is snowing again with tiny light flakes and again no wind.  How could one not be over joyed watching it snow?!
     As I was reading through the Psalms this morning, I came across Psalm 51.  In there David compares God's forgiveness to washing us and making us white as snow.  See snow really is a good thing.  This morning was a perfect reminder, waking up and seeing everything covered in the pure, clean, white snow.  It wasn't messy, or brown yet.  Still just the perfect white across the entire landscape.  It's a perfect reminder that every morning we wake u in the forgiveness of Jesus Christ, pure, holy, and clean from all sin.  We are given that white start, that fresh start to live a faithful life that day for the honor of our God.  Now, without a doubt, just like the real snow, we will mess it up, we will push it aside and turn it brown and nasty with our sin.  However, as I sit here and watch it continue to snow, it is just as God's endless showering of love, grace, and mercy.  His forgiveness continues to shower upon us, continues to cover us with the whiteness of Jesus's salvation.  What a wonderful reminder this beautiful snow cover serves to remind us of, the same way David saw it.
    Maybe this is why people love a white Christmas.  Was there ever a more perfect, more holy day than the day our Lord was born in the flesh?  You may say Easter, but in reality Easter would not have been possible without His birth coming first.  So this Christmas, whether you find yourself in snow or not, be reminded that every Christmas is a white Christmas.  The Day our Lord is born, God in the flesh, to be our Savior, our Redeemer, and our King, is the most perfect, holy, and righteous days of them all.  His conception is the beginning of the victory!  His birth is the birth of peace on earth for all mankind!  His death and resurrection is the first climax of His victory!  His ascension and sending the Spirit is His stamp of victory on us!  And His second coming will be the final climax, the pinnacle of all days in our story of life - eternal life!  And it all stared with a baby in a manger, perfect and holy, white as snow in the eyes of our Heavenly Father.  And it is our Lord who gives us that whiteness as He washes us clean in His forgiveness.  So I say, let it snow!  But more importantly, let us never forget the Lord we have who washes us and makes us white as that snow, as He forgives us from our sin and makes us righteous in the eyes of our Heavenly Father.  Praise be to our awesome God!  Amen.