Showing posts with label white Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white Christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

A White After-Christmas (Whiter Than Snow)

Well, at our home, we are watching the snow come down pretty heavily. Yes it's going to be a white after-Christmas for sure. It is beautiful. To look out the window and see a pure, snow-laden landscape on the Day after we just celebrated the Birth of our Savior is quite inspirational, indeed.

Jesus came from Heaven to earth to wash us and to make us whiter than snow. Yes, The Christ Child came to pardon our sins -- to wash away our acts and deeds of rebellion. He also came to purify our hearts from all Sin -- to cleanse our attitudes and dispositions of rebellion.

Wash me clean from my guilt.
Purify me from my sin.

-- Psalm 51:2 (NLT)

“Come on now, let’s discuss this!” says the Lord.
“Though your sins are bright red,
they will become as white as snow.
Though they are dark red,
they will become as white as wool."

-- Isaiah 1:18 (GWT)

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
-- 1 John 1:9 (NIV 1984)

Click here: Kirk Franklin - Jesus Paid It All [White As Snow] - YouTube
 
Deo Volente -- Whatever God Wants! (Jesus Paid it All!)
Grateful 

Monday, December 24, 2012

The Incarnation Should Be Our Inspiration

Christmastime is especially a spiritual season for us to find renewed inspiration in the marvelous mystery of the Incarnation. Yes, God not only came to us, but He became one of us, that He might come to us, even reign within us. Talk about mind-boggling mercy? The Creator became One with His Creation to bring us salvation from sin and to secure our reservation with Him for forever. It's called Love. Christmas Love.

Listen to these wonderful words written down in John 1:1-14 (GWT) --  In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was already with God in the beginning. 3 Everything came into existence through Him. Not one thing that exists was made without Him. 4 He was the source of Life, and that Life was the Light for humanity. 5 The Light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it. 6 God sent a man named John to be His messenger. 7 John came to declare the truth about the Light so that everyone would become believers through his message. 8 John was not the Light, but he came to declare the truth about the Light. 9 The real Light, which shines on everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him. Yet, the world didn’t recognize Him. 11 He went to His own people, and His own people didn’t accept Him. 12 However, He gave the right to become God’s children to everyone who believed in Him. 13 These people didn’t become God’s children in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire to have a child. They were born from God. 14 The Word became human and lived among us. We saw His glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with His only Son, a glory full of kindness and truth.

Click here: When Love Came Down (Remade Christmas 2011) - YouTube

Speaking of "Love coming down?" It's Christmas Eve and a gentle snow is beginning to fall here in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Looks like a white Christmas is in the making. Marvelous. 

ALL JOY TO YOUR WORLD! ALL PEACE TO YOUR SOUL!
Grateful

Monday, February 1, 2010

In Debt!

Jesus paid it all.
All to Him we owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain.
He washed it white as snow!

Lord, we are so glad we're in debt to You and for Your glory!

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
Grateful

Friday, December 18, 2009

Too Wonderful For Words!

It's about 1:15 a.m. and I have just started unwinding from a sort of busy and seemingly short year. I received a Christmas card today with an amazing verse in it. I just had to share it with you before finally turning in for a long-winter's nap:

Thank God for His Son—a gift too wonderful for words!
2 Corinthians 9:15 (NLT)

ALL... JOY TO YOUR WORLD!
Grateful

P.S. Looks like A White Christmas could be in store for us this year.