How beautiful is the snow as it falls from heaven! How lightly and gently it drops upon the field and the garden, as if its mission were of a kind and bountiful nature!
This is, in fact, the real nature of the mission of the snow. Farmers tell us that if much rain falls during February, it often beats down the surface of the soil, and leaves it hard. But if snow falls, it lies a longer or shorter term upon the surface, and then sinks very gradually into the earth. The result is that the earth is soft and spongy, and yields much more readily to the plow.
Now, this will help us to understand a very beautiful promise of God in His Word (Isaiah 55:1010For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: (Isaiah 55:10)) “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow, from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
The words of God often drop softly upon the heart, and remain a long time before they sink down; but they do the bidding of their Author, and produce His praise.