Whiter than snow | Winter

Dark days and cold. The time of thick coats, scraping car windows, wearing hats and wrapping up in scarves. Some people don’t like it at all and are happy when winter is over. Others, however, enjoy the long evenings with burning candles at home, accompanied by a cup of hot chocolate. The fun is endless when ditches and puddles freeze and an ice skating trip on natural ice is possible. Snowfall completes the picture. The white flakes make the dirt on earth invisible. Nature at its most beautiful! 

Where does snow actually come from? Who is the Designer of these beautiful crystals? In the Bible, the book of God, we read the answer. God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is also the Maker of snow. He made everything, including us. Do you know this God already?  

Unfortunately, that spotless blanket of snow does not last long. Wherever people walk through it or cars and bicycles drive over it, the white snow slowly turns into a brown slush. That is also what happened to the world. God created the earth and people beautiful and completely good. It was perfect. But it is no longer like that. Everywhere, the earth is polluted and there are problems and worries. How often does it seem that evil prevails! And in our own lives, too, we encounter impurity. The Bible calls this sin: wrong thoughts, words, desires, and actions.  

How did this happen? What went wrong? Where did it go wrong? In the Bible, we read that this is because of the disobedience of the first people to God. Because of this, the earth—and also people—became defiled. Just as the beautiful white snow is turned into dirty brown slush by people.  

But: the Bible tells us even more! For God has not changed. His goodness is still just as great, and He is full of compassion for this world. He sent the dearest He had, His Son, to this dirty earth. Jesus is His Name. He came to cleanse people stained by their sins through His suffering and death. Ask God if He will do that in your life as well, just like the writer of Psalm 51:  

Psalm 51
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow