Thawing out the nation

Some extra thoughts for you this time...

So I've been thinking about the country covered in snow and ice and yesterday blogged about how that humbles us as human beings making us realise that we are not the all powerful folk we sometimes like to think we are. Whether it be a tsunami, a hurricane or 40cm of snow and temperatures of -18C it is surely plain that "nature" can throw at us some difficult and dangerous circumstances. This is always an opportunity for us to acknowledge that God is God and we are not - that He is all-powerful (the Almighty) and we aren't.

But more than that, this big freeze across the UK is, I believe, symbolic of what God wants to happen to the nation. Not a freezing over of people's hearts towards Him, but a thawing out of lives that need to respond to His call. The way that the snow and ice today will be melted is by the liberal distribution of salt and generous amounts of strong sunlight. Matt 5:13-16 calls us as Christians to be salt and light to our nation. We can be the catalyst for the thawing of many hearts, minds and people's very lives as we seek God and do what He calls us to do today, tomorrow, this week, this month and this year. Here's to a fully thawed out land!