Frost

This morning I walked out of my apartment to find my car. It was a cold crisp morning, the fresh air felt amazing, as it hit my face I knew it would be a good day. God has given me a new day to live, to breath, to express my gratitude to Him and for Him.

I found my car and climbed in and on the windows the frost covered them. Not a heavy fronts, but heavy enough. Yes, I could get out of the car to scrape the windows or I could sit there and let the defrosters do there job. I sat there and watched as the frost melted from the window. The first layer that melted was the thick stuff and the hard to see through layer, the second was the layer that if you run the wipers, it just wipes it away.

As I sat there I was reminded how it is easy to let life cloud our thoughts, it starts off slow as I am sure that frost did, it didn't just attach the whole window at once, it slowly covered the window. Just as in our lives it doesn't happen all at once but things start to creep in, they start to slowly invade who God has made us, they start to make it harder and harder to see the truth. It would be like me trying to drive with the frost covered windows. You are right that is crazy, but that is how we can live each day, unless we allow God to work in us.

It takes time to allow the frost to melt, layer by layer, inch by inch, but it melted. God is just the same way as those defrosters, He will melt away the frost that clouds our vision, but we have to turn on the defroster, we have to say Lord, please let me see through this garbage that has built up in my life. It comes down allowing Him to work. Stop looking for the scraper and ask God to be the defroster. Allow Him to work in you.

He love us so much. He sent His son to die for our sins. He has gone before us and prepared away for us, but first we have to trust Him. Is it time to ask Him to clear our windshields, to clear are windows so we have a clear view of Him and a clear view of ourselves? Isn't it time we not see ourselves as the world does, but as Jesus does?

Today take a moment and see that you are loved, not for your past, but for who you are. Allow Jesus to wash your heart clean as snow (not including our toxic snow...). But allow Him to make you new. I was reminded of a verse and a song.

The verse is: 2 Corinthian 5:16-17
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
And the song: Hold Me Jesus

Well, sometimes my life
Just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small

CHORUS:
So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart

CHORUS

Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something
I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band
Is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin

CHORUS

You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace