Seeing God in Just-So-You-Know Snow Days
Judy Thresher
“He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down.” Job 37:6 (NLT)
“When he [Jesus] was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, ‘The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables.’” Mark 4:10-11 (NIV)
“Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?” Luke 12:56 (NKJ)
“Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Acts 17:11 (NIV)
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." Exodus 20:17 (NIV)
“But so that we may not offend them...” Matthew 17:27 (NIV)
“By standing firm you will gain life.” Luke 21:19 (NIV)
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:11 (NKJ)
“The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith!'" Luke 17:5 (NIV)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” John 15:1-2 (NIV)
“He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down.” Job 37:6 (NLT)
“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.” 1 Chronicles 29:14 (NIV)
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines … yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the Lord, is my strength …” Habakkuk 3:17-19 (ESV)
“Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us.” Hebrews 12:1a (CSB)