Righteousness Through Christ

One day I was looking outside a window at the snow falling to the ground and started to realize something. Snow can be used as a picture of virginity coming down from the sky. Snow is formed from pure water and becomes a beautiful crystallized white structure as its formed.

Then again, falling snow can be used as an analogy for Christ. Christ came down from heaven as a virgin, He was without sin. He was blameless before God and men. Jesus came bringing the hope that we can through Him become new, that we can become pure and clean like fresh snow.

In this analogy, we are the ground. We were made out of the dirt, Christ is the one who came down from above, from heaven to defeat what we could not ourselves. Ever since the time when sin entered the world we have been unable to become pure. No matter how hard we tried we still were stuck playing with our dirt, our sin.

Since we are stuck in our sinful nature we don't really mind being sinful. We sometimes like getting more and more dirty by doing deeper in our sin. It is until we are shown the beauty and righteousness of Christ that we see how dirty and unclean we are. The problems is, we must be either cleaned up or thrown into the fire.

It is not in our power to clean ourselves up. You can't clean dirt by human attempts, soapy water only makes soapy mud. We may smell a tiny bit better, but in reality our attempts at cleanliness make no difference. That is the very reason we needed someone with supernatural power and complete righteousness to some down and make us new and clean. It was not because of anything that we could do that made us clean or loved by God.

Ephesian 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

When we are cleaned by Christ, it is like snow that falls and covers the bare, dirty, and ugly ground. However, unlike snow which just covers the dirt, Christ wipes away our sin forever. When Christ wipes away our sin we are made righteous and blameless before God. Instead of being like dirt, we become like fresh snow. There is nothing we can do to clean ourselves up, we should know it is by the profound power and work of Christ in us that makes us clean.