The Snow of Heaven

                      The Snow of Heaven

And the Word of the Lord sifted down on the hearts of the hearers,

Covering the darkness as the snow of winter blankets a city.

And like the snow of heav'n clothes the polluted city in beauty,

His crimson-stained soul was adorned in the white righteousness of Jesus.

And her life, robed in white but spotted black, was washed by truth from God,

Just as the soot of a city is swept to the sea after a storm.

Some Scripture pierced; others' thirst it quenched; and more were turned by its light.

In one, the Word burned as a fire, and in all it performed God's pleasure. 

 MCC - 2/18/10

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 like crimson, they shall become like wool.

For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.