A blizzard is a thing to avoid at all costs. When the snow blows in, it is frightening. Everything is lost. We can’t even see our hands in front of our faces.
Everything disappears in a blizzard. Just to walk from our front door to our car is to risk life and limb. All we can see is the snow. We have whiteout conditions, and everything that was once familiar to us has become different.
As Christians we need to stand in the blizzard. We want to be in the middle of the whiteout, to have our worldly existence disappear in the blinding brilliance of God’s overpowering love.
God’s blizzard scours away every stain of wrongdoing and puts us before the world as an example of the best humanity can be.
1 Timothy 3:2 tells us to “be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach…”
God’s storm scours us clean by the driven snow of his holy presence.
Acts 2:38 tells us to “repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins…”
We will then stand tall in God’s whiteout conditions, brilliantly shining in him.
1 John 1:9 tells us that “if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
A blizzard can hit with hurricane force winds, scouring the landscape and carrying away anything not tied down. God is that blizzard, and the force of his forgiving power will blast away all our sins.
We can’t afford to sit inside, watching the storm from the safety of our overheated, worldly lives. We have to get into the midst of God’s righteous gale, to let his purity scour us clean, and to be blanketed with the brilliance of his awesome presence.
We have to stand in the blizzard, and when we do, we will know the beauty of living in the majesty of Whiteout Christianity.
When God blows into our lives, everything else disappears in the presence of his blinding magnificence.
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