Like a Winter Snow

This weekend, I'm pretty sure that I heard the most beautiful Christmas song ever written. As part of the Savannah Christian Church production of "The Christmas Station", Skylar Reed (who is a senior at Calvary Day School in Savannah) sang a song called "Winter Snow". The song was written by Audrey Assad and premiered on Chris Tomlin's "Glory in the Highest" Christmas album, which was released in 2009. You can listen to the song HERE. My advice is to open the page now, push play, and finish reading while the song plays.

The song simply explains that there are many ways in which Jesus Christ could have entered this world. He could have come like a tidal wave, immediately effecting everything in his path. He could have come like a forest fire, instantly engulfing everything in his path. Instead, he came in the middle of the night, in a cave that served as a stable for the owner of some run down inn located in some little old town in the middle of nowhere. He came silently, almost unnoticeable. He didn't have to, but he did. Is there any better way to paint a picture of what a humble God we serve? That he caused his son to enter the world in such conditions? He didn't send Jesus with an earth-shaking entrance, he sent him as a baby in a cave.

He came slowly, softly, and quietly. Isn't it fitting that the Prince of Peace came in such a peaceful way? He could have arrived with the sound of drums, covered in jewels. He could have entered this earth, demanding the attention of all its inhabitants, but he didn't. He came like falling snow.

At first, the presence of God's son was almost unnoticeable. As he arrived, no one knew that he was different than any other baby. Actually, most people just assumed that he was the son of some unknown man that Mary had been sleeping with. Though he came without notice, he went on to become the Savior of the world. From a wooden feeding trough to a wooden cross, that's our Savior's story. Though he came without notice, it wasn't very long until he couldn't be ignored. Suddenly, people were being covered by the love of Jesus. The blind received sight, the sick received health, and the heartbroken received healing. The love of Jesus Christ surged through the country side like and avalanche down the side of a mountain.

Maybe that's how God really works in people's lives. As we allow him into our hearts, the snow begins to fall. A snow so pure and so white that Hell cringes, just at the thought of it. Maybe he comes without notice. Soon though, we're covered by the love of Jesus. A love so deep and so pure that we can't feel anything beyond it, because we're covered.

He came like a winter snow, silent, soft, and slow. Falling from the sky, in the night, to the earth below. Allow this song about that first chapter of the most beautiful love story in history change you. Allow him to fall onto your life this Christmas season. You won't regret it.....

From the Hilltop,
Hunter Odom
hunter2444@coastalnow.net
Romans 8:28