Winter: Hope in God's Character

If you're like me and right now just trying to smile your way through 5 feet of snow in your front yard, cabin fever, and single digit temps, join me in preaching to your own heart that GOD is the One who sustains us. Even in winter.

Winter in Colorado truly is a beautiful sight to behold. Creation feels still and calm and quiet. But it can also feel cold and dead and unproductive... like nothing living will ever come from the hard ground. When we’re tired of waiting and unable to see what growth may come. We have to rest in who He is and not in who we are by nature.

In GraceLaced, I wrote about winter being the season of life where we sometimes find our sense of hope trampled down.

In the end, it's God's character that will break through the harsh cold of winter as He steps in to carry our burdens.

He is our hope! And when we are reminded of His character, we'll find true rest as we wait for spring.

Maybe, this year's physical winter finds you in a personal spiritual winter, too. If so, can I encourage you with some of the characteristics of God? Of who He is, to bring hope and rest?

 Friends, this list is just scratching the surface of who God is!

He is infinite and we cannot exhaust knowing Him.

Each new revelation of His character brings us hope and rest. In her book, None Like Him, my friend Jen Wilkin puts it like this: 

"Knowing who God is matters to us.... But how much do we know of him? Because he is limitless, the knowledge of who he is stretches to infinity. God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known. it is the joyful duty, the delightful task of his children to send their lives, both this one and the next, discovering who he is."

Knowing who God is leads us to rest.

Our lives are designed to be all about Him, and when we get that right, we get everything right. 

Because of grace,

Some of the thoughts for this post first appeared on Instagram on February 20, 2019.