Snow: Its Importance and Significance

There is snow in North Carolina today. Sometimes it is rare here, but still very lovely. The Bible speaks of how important snow is to daily life, and how significant as a comparison to eternal affairs this frozen moisture is.

The challenges around us, including colder weather, mean nothing to a man or woman committed to receive God’s help. Benaiah, one of David’s mighty men, killed a lion in the midst of snow. I’ve stroked the back of a male lion, and they are PRETTY BIG. God will help us in ANY situation.

2 Samuel 23:20:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of SNOW.

We are all born in sin, but God gives us salvation and spiritual cleansing through Jesus Christ. We are even whiter and cleaner than the pure, driven snow.

Psalms 51:7:
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than SNOW.

God gives snow to cover the ground like a warm woolen blanket on a cold night. Snow contains nutrients such as nitrogen and sulfur, which can be absorbed into the soil. And snow provides an insulating blanket over the ground to protect delicate plants from severe cold and winter winds.

Psalms 147:16:
He giveth SNOW like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

A virtuous woman, one who trusts in God for her sufficiency, is fearless, even when snow falls and temperatures plummet. She prepares for every season and obeys the Lord Who guides her.

Proverbs 31:21:
She is not afraid of the SNOW for her household: for all her household are clothed with [double garments].

We have our sins forgiven and become spiritually pure as snow when we “reason” with the Lord. He has given us the solution to all our problems in Christ. When we confess the risen Jesus Christ and make him our Lord, we are saved [Romans 10:9,10].

Isaiah 1:18:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as SNOW; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Just as the rain and snow bring life-giving moisture to the earth, so God’s Words bring life to us. God provides plants for us to eat physically, and He provides truth to feed us spiritually. Jesus said that God’s Words are “spiritual life” [John 6:63].

Isaiah 55:10,11:
For as the rain cometh down, and the SNOW from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

God gave Peter, James, and John a vision of what the glorified Christ would be like. They saw the brilliance of God’s power and majesty revealed in His Son.

Matthew 28:3:
His [Jesus’] countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as SNOW.

Jesus Christ sits at His Father’s right hand NOW in glory. He will be revealed to all in the fullness of time.

Revelation 1:14:
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as SNOW; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.

Let’s enjoy this day, and thank God for His many blessings to us.