Treasures of the Snow

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Treasures of the Snow Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail? Job 38, 22. Yeah. It is interesting that this book, the oldest in the Bible, contains more references to snow, ice, and frost than any other book of the Bible.

This is despite the fact that Job's homeland was in what is now essentially a desert region. Possibly the effects of the post flood ice age were still strong in Job's day. In any case, the beautiful phrase Treasures of the Snow is both appropriate and prophetic. Its crystal structure, though mostly in the form of delicate six pointed stars, is endlessly varied and always intricately symmetrical and incredibly beautiful. The snow is a treasure in other ways as well.

The winter snowpack in the mountains is often called white gold because of its indispensable water storage capacity, released in the melting season each spring to provide life to teeming cities and irrigation in the desert for needed food supplies. The snow also aids in maintaining the plant's chemical cycles by returning various elements and the nuclei of its flakes back from the ocean to the lands from which they were leached and transported by rivers to the oceans. When the snowpack becomes a glacier, it can greatly assist in the breakup of rocks to form fertile soils. In the Scriptures its pure white colour is often used to symbolize the cleaning of a sinful heart that trusts the Lord. Wash me, said David, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. The Lord promises those who come to Him for salvation. As the snow comes down from heaven, so comes the word of God to ask the soul, as in today's text, Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Yeah. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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