“I’m Desperate for Snow”

Those were the words of our bleary-eyed, barely-awake 8-year-old on a recent school morning. She had worn her pajamas inside-out and backwards, flushed ice, put a spoon under her pillow, and done her best snow dance, all to no avail. She had to wake up and go. (Don’t feel too bad for her. Her snow routine worked last night and I am currently in comfy sweats on our first official snow day of the year!)

As I have thought (and laughed) about Lyssa and her “desperation” for snow, I couldn’t help but think about David’s plea in Psalm 51:7 where he says, “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow;” or the beautiful words of the Lord in Isaiah 1:18: ““Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow….'”

As those Bible words entered my mind, I realized Lyssa wasn’t really that far off. She certainly was thinking of a physical want, but she brought to mind my (our) desperate spiritual need. When talking to Nicodemus in John 3, Jesus says very clearly that “unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” and “unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (verses 3 & 5) Jesus also told his listeners in Matthew 18:3 that unless one is converted and becomes as a little child, will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

What does all that have to do with snow? Snow is a symbol of purity, cleanness, sinlessness. Jesus said unless I enter that state, I cannot see or enter His kingdom. With David, I plead to God: “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” I am spiritually desperate for snow!

“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)

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