It snowed most of the afternoon, yesterday. It wouldn’t stick, though, as our weather has been so crazy and the ground was far from cold. It wasn’t even sticking to the grass, trees or bushes.

After a while, I just asked God if He wouldn’t mind letting it stick to the vegetative stuff. “It just looks so much prettier that way,” I told Him. Wouldn’t you know it, the flakes got really fluffy and it started to stick. It wasn’t even sticking to the roads at all, just to the brown, ugly grass and the bare trees and bushes. It snowed like that most of the evening and it was gorgeous. I even woke this morning to a lightly snow covered world.

Now, I am not so arrogant as to think that God did that just to make me feel good. My view of God’s sovereignty is pretty high, and I think that the ramifications of everything are million fold and all woven together by Him and for His glory, bent to His will. In other words, God never does anything for one reason and I am never the center of it. He is always the center.

My perspective, though, sees the one thing I wanted from the situation. So, in my mind, I was feeling pretty stressed and found peace in that beauty – and in the knowledge that it was just what I asked for from my Father and He was gracious.

When snow covers the ugliness of winter ground, I think of the verse in Isaiah. Is. 1:18 says, “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.’”

I am reminded that even though the scars of my sin remain in my person, He covers me and makes me over in His mercy. I am renewed by His grace, lavished on me, though I don’t deserve it.

Frankly, that’s enough to make a guy feel better about everything. Not only that God loves you enough to be merciful, but also to remind you of it, just when you need it. That’s a wonderful savior. Wouldn’t you agree?

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