Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. ~ Gal. 1:3
As I sit at my desk this Sunday, it is still snowing after 36 hours of white stuff falling from the sky. It’s beautiful yet hard to believe that it continues, and continues… In Colorado we are accustomed to short lived snow storms of 12 or 18 hours duration. This two day affair is beyond normal! Will it ever stop? It reminds me of a song our friend David Stearman sings when ministering at our local church…. ‘Somewhere it’s Snowing’. Yes…it continues snowing right here!
So it is with grace. Grace continues. It keeps on falling on us! Much longer than 36 hours, thank the Lord! We, especially in the western world, are not accustomed to durability of concepts, ideas, materials, and even relationships. We live in a touch screen world with software programs, apps, constant upgrades, replacements and appeals for something new to buy…rather than embracing things durable and continually operable. Much of what we own is disposable after only a few months or years of use. It fails to endure. It fails the test of time.
Grace is the durable manifestation of Jesus Christ, continually cleansing us when we don’t even realize it. Grace is the ultimate snow storm….the perfect storm. Grace never stops falling, bringing purification and the water of life with every flake. God’s manna from heaven fell for 40 years as provision for Israel in the wilderness. It was durable and operable because it was God! Yet grace goes even further than that.
Today we embrace the Father’s durable, continual, operation of grace that purifies and gives life. We embrace the perfect storm authored by our Father in Heaven. But we may have to rename that song to ‘Everywhere it’s Snowing’.
Click here to read another post from Harvey Wittmier on the benefits of the gift of grace.
