Today is a beautiful day! We woke up this morning to pristine white snow-capped mountains and about three inches here in the valley of our little town in Eastern Kentucky. What an incredible way to start a new year. There's just something about the freshness and newness of a snowfall that reminds me of our walk with Christ. Just as snow falls and covers all of the deadness of the winter ground and makes things clean and pure white. The same can be said for our Christian walk. When we enter into a relationship with Christ, He makes us clean and white as snow, taking our sin away and continues to renew and refresh us with new snow everyday. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
One of my good friends and missionary serving here in Eastern Kentucky, Julie Pitts, absolutely loves snow! She is originally from South Carolina where there is not a lot of snow and definitely not enough falls to get out and play in. So every time it snows here she is like a kid in a candy store. She just wants to get out in it and take in all she can. I love her enthusiasm, but the older I get, the less my adventurous side wants to go out in it. But Julie loves it! It's cool listening to her even talk about it. The JOY of the Lord shines from within her! Most people, after a minute of looking at the snow are ready for it to be gone because it just causes problems, especially if you're one that has to get out in it to go to work. But her take on it is so refreshing! In a conversation with her, she said, "I love it when it snows, because for a moment everything slows down. It slows down so much that you can hear the quietness of God's creation. It draws me closer to Him!" What JOY!!!
God's creation is His JOY! Everything He breathed into existence brings Him pure JOY! Genesis 1:31 says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good." In other words, He was pleased. He took pleasure in His creation. He had JOY!
If God has JOY in what He has created, we should take JOY in His creation too! Shouldn't we? So today I choose to take in all of His creation through the beautiful snow that has fallen in these Appalachian Mountains. I am going to rest in the fact that His JOY comes through providing me, his most treasured creation, with the beauty that snow brings. The newness and freshness it represents. And as Julie put it, the quietness of God's creation.
Angie Burkeen
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