Snow

So, I've been really taking time to learn, grow, and be a role model for these two boys from my church. I love these guys to death man. However, they are young, but the church doesn't "get" them, that's because they aren't your typical "youth group kids", they love hardcore and metal music and they ride skateboards. Well, I went to their house yesterday after work to hang out with them and go hear some speakers, just as i got to there house, it began to snow. The funny thing is Loyal and Mollie and I had lunch at there house Sunday, it snowed then too. Well it started coming down, it made a light dusting just enough to cover the ground, two things occurred. First, their parents were like "Jordan, you know every time you come here it seems to snow." So as the snow was falling, I began to think about some things. You see snow, when it falls, is some of the purest things you'll ever see, it falls, patiently and calmly, moving at its chosen pace. When the moment is right, it will completely cover the ground and everything around it in its wholeness. In that moment, that short little moment, the world is clothed in this pure white blanket, as the Bible says, it is as pure as a new snowfall. So i began to think of our lives...its just like that, you see the world in its fresh snow fall is pure, completely wrapped in this white blanket...then what happens, we human beings rise and in a matter of seconds, minutes, hours, we destroy it, removing it, staining it with dirt and filth that comes from us and its no longer white as snow. To me that explains our lives so perfectly, you see we except Christ, and he comes down, wraps us in His light, which is pure, for a moment in our time we are clothed in perfection and pureness, don't get me wrong I'm not saying we lose this, we will always have it. However, like the snow, our flesh, who we are as humans, quickly we mess it up, we fall and get captured in something that totally just stains this new "freshly fallen pureness" within ourselves. You know what else is so great about watching a new snowfall....grace...yep there's grace in a snowfall. When we cover it and ruin it guess what, when the times right, a new snowfall comes and covers all the dirt again, without question, and its pure again. That's how it is with us in Christ, when we stain our new pureness, when the moments right, and we choose to go before the Lord, and put ourselves out there, no matter what we've done as human beings, His grace is sufficient, and He lets it snow with forgiveness for our souls...we are again...white as snow.