As White As Snow

Over a period of a few hours, the snow accumulated to several inches.  I watched from the window as the beautiful white covered the ground and hung from the tree branches.  The landscape was totally changed.  What was brown and dead had now been converted to an awesome canopy of white which was pure and clean.  Isaiah spoke to a "sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that were corrupters; people who had forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, and had gone away backward."  Isaiah 1:4.  However, they were given this promise and this opportunity, "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow."  Isaiah 1:18.  That which was ugly and dead could once again know life and beauty.  Those who had turned away could return.  They who had provoked could still know His love.  Their sins which separated them from God could be "as white as snow."  There is something extraordinary about white droplets falling from the sky and covering the ground with awesome beauty.  There is something extraordinary about "sins as scarlet becoming as white as snow."  Perhaps, a fallen flake of snow still speaks of love and grace.  Yes, it even speaks of revival and redemption.