Thursday; January 29
Have you noticed how common the concept of snow is in our culture? Even in the Tropics, when the holiday season comes, they decorate with symbols of snowflakes and snowmen – things that many of them have never experienced. Snow is kind of cool – literally! Interestingly, the idea of the whiteness of snow is used in the Bible – a story that focuses heavily on the temperate climate of the Middle East. In the era of international media seeing snowstorms from across the world or hearing of snow during winter isn’t unheard of; however, for those in the Middle East, they probably weren’t all that familiar with it. That’s what makes the biblical references to snow so interesting to me. Take this excerpt from Isaiah, “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. ‘Come now, and let us reas...