Weather Signals

It rains, it snows, the sun blazes down, it is foggy, it is snowy... Each weather option speaks something about God -
a. rain. The Holy Spirit is often spoken of like rain. Believers pray that He might "rain down' on us. Rain is needed for there to be life. Rain cleanses the countryside of dirt. It is an apt picture of the infiltrating work of God's Spirit among us.
b. sunshine. A clear metaphor of how God brings things into His light, and how He illuminates what has been in the dark. In Him is light, and there is no darkness at all. Sunshine always suggests the pure and holy nature of our God.
c. Fog. This is how we often think- unclear, confused, not sure where we're going. Fog is a good illustration of how we are apart from God's grace. C.S. Lewis pictured hell as a foggy place, always at dusk, just about the rain with lots of fog (The Great Divorce.)
d. Snow. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow Isaiah prophesied. Snow is welcomed by a few (at least in December) and it is a good picture of the believer's state un der the blood of Christ. We are clean, robed in white, dressed in Christ's righteousness, the Scripture says.

Who said it?

"WHAT IS TRUTH?"
a. Adolph Hitler
b. John Lennon
c. Pontius Pilate
d. President John F. Kennedy

Welcome to UMassD Protestant Thoughts!

Welcome to our new blog, relating to all things of interest to the Protestant Chaplaincy on campus at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. We invite posts on a wide variety of topics of local interest to the UMassD community, of interest to believers in Christ in the wider community around Dartmouth and of the widest circle of friends between universities. We will post articles, vids, resources of interest and invite comments, musings, opinions and prayer requests by UMassD friends and interested associates. The perspective of this blog will be from a conservative Protestant viewpoint however we invite all perspectives to interact and provide interesting and relevant input.