Ep 34: Let It Snow

Speaker1: Hey. Good morning, I'm Daniel Delp, and this is for your Sunday morning drive. The short podcast designed to help put you in a Colossians three two mindset and help prepare your mind for worship on those hectic Sunday mornings. I do want to say a quick thank you to all of those that are making us a part of your weekly routine, and if you do have a moment, give us a share with someone that you think could benefit from the podcast. We are brought to you this morning in partnership with the Ministry League Network of Podcasts. As always, you can find a link to their YouTube channel in the show notes of today's episode. Through Ministry League, you can find many great podcasts to help you grow spiritually and encourage you in your walk with Jesus. Speaking of Ministry League, some exciting news. Last week I was graciously asked to be a guest on the Road Trips podcast with Tyler Wahl. Tyler and I had a great conversation about preparing minds for worship, and I've linked to his podcast in that episode. In the show notes of today's episode, I encourage you to go and subscribe to it. Tyler has many great episodes out there with some wonderful content, and I know you'll be blessed by checking it out. Well, I think that about covers it for this morning. I hope you're bundled up and ready to go out into the cold. Let's get this show on the road. This is episode 34. Let it snow. Let's go to church.

Speaker2: Are we there yet?

Speaker1: Last week in Evansville, we had the first snowfall of the season. I mean, it wasn't much less than five inches, but man, were we excited. And by we, I mean my daughter and I. Now, I don't know how you feel about snow. I know some people hate it and those people are sad and wrong. But in the downpours, we love it. And I don't know what it is about a fresh snowfall that just seems magical to me. Maybe it harkens back to memories of the most precious and glorious of all days. The snow day. A whole day off of school to get together with friends or just stay inside and play video games. Turns out you don't get those as an adult. Or maybe it's the type of weather that's most associated with the Yuletide season and all the good things that are found therein. But I think more than anything at this stage of life, I love snow because of its beauty, maybe even its symbolism. With purity, the whole landscape covered and hidden under a blanket of white. And isn't it funny that even the most unkempt yard like mine looks absolutely beautiful under a layer of snow? There's not much that a good layer of snow, even if it's just a dusting, can't change into something pure, something white, something beautiful. It reminds me of God's grace, of his mercy, of his forgiveness. Isaiah chapter 118 says, come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow, and though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool in the previous verses. God tells the people of Israel just how unacceptable their current spiritual condition is to him.

Speaker1: They are unclean. He says that he despises their empty feasts and their worthless sacrifices. But in verse 18 he says they can be made clean by coming to him and submitting to his will by ceasing their evil practices, but that it's impossible to do on their own. It must involve God's help. And the same is true for us. Without the blood of Jesus, our sins are as scarlet, but he can make us white as snow. And just like a dusting of snow on an imperfect landscape, there is nothing so ugly, so depraved or so lost that the blood of Christ can't make right. Colossians chapter one, verse 19 through 22. For it was the father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in him, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross, through him I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind and engaged in evil deeds, yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death in order to present you before him, holy and blameless and beyond reproach. As winter is fast approaching. And while some don't love snow, I love the God that used it as a simile for our sins and for his goodness. And if that's the case, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Well, those are my thoughts for your Sunday morning drive. Now it's time to hear yours. Our discussion questions for this week are. Do we sometimes put limits on the cleansing power of Jesus blood? And what are you most thankful to be forgiven for? Do.