a clean sheet of paper

  Snow...a clean sheet of paper...a New Year...

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These are three things or substances or concepts that appear pure, untouched, full of potential while free of errors or "wish I had's".  I remember great times playing in fresh snow, feeling like a pioneer in my familiar backyard by making boot prints, snowballs and sled tracks where there had been nothing but perfect snow.  In school I learned the joy of framing creative ideas through words on notebook paper.  And each New Year we feel a fresh start, a new beginning, a chance to improve or correct or complete things that we have been wanting to address.

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Perhaps we can apply this approach to our view of God.  Perhaps we can start with a clean sheet of paper, like a backyard of fresh snow, to reconsider God.  I have a feeling that we project our view of people onto the person of God.  Instead of starting fresh and allowing Him to fill us with a picture of who He is and how we can know Him, we start with ourselves and try to imagine God like another one of us somehow.

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So, maybe as the New Year begins we can bring a new view upward and allow God to describe and inform us Himself, about Himself.  It might help us see ourselves more clearly!

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Deuteronomy 7:⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

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love,

Rob Smith