White as Snow

As I was walking through the dazzling snow not too many days ago, I was reminded that God washes my sin away and makes me clean… makes me white as snow. I’m not talking about the dirty snow piles that are left around town now, but that pure white dazzling snow that almost blinds you in the light. I wondered why God would say white as snow. And I wondered if anything was whiter than snow. I thought of different white items I could drag outside onto the snow so I could compare them… but I didn’t. :) Next time maybe.

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Psalm 51:7

"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. Isaiah 1:18

How does God wash away my sin and make me pure?

As the old hymn goes:
1 What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Refrain:
O precious is the flow that makes me white as snow;
no other fount I know; nothing but the blood of Jesus.
2 For my pardon this I see: nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this my plea: nothing but the blood of Jesus.
(Refrain)
3 Nothing can for sin atone; nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Naught of good that I have done; nothing but the blood of Jesus.
(Refrain)
4 This is all my hope and peace: nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness: nothing but the blood of Jesus.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:7

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. Revelations 1:5&6

In God’s sight we are clean…spotless…pure…white as snow. He sees us through Christ’s righteousness.

And you know what excites me further? To Whom the other references of white as snow refer to.

As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool… Daniel 7:9(look back up at Isaiah 1:18 and note the use of snow and wool there too.)

His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. Revelation 1:14

Reading these same words applying to God/Christ Jesus and then also to us who believe and walk in the light, makes me exclaim “WOW!”

God truly does see us through Christ’s righteousness. What could be purer than that?!
Thank You Father! We are so blessed.