The Maker's Mark
Snowflakes are amazing and beautiful. In over 50 winters, I’ve only experienced truly perfect snowflakes a handful of times—tiny little six-pointed stars, ever so clean and fragile. Just recently, my family and I enjoyed them landing on the windows of our van, lingering wonderfully before melting against the heat emanating from the interior. Looking at the tiny wonders, I noticed something about them that had never occurred to me before. Take a look at this video and see if you notice it, too.
Look at the stellar dendrite (and the one right after it at about 1:57). Snowflakes always have six sides. Always. That means they also have six main arms. Do you realize what that makes every single snowflake that has ever fallen? Every last snowflake, all 10^34 (by some estimates) of them, are chrismons or monograms of Christ, like this:
Why is this symbol considered a monogram of Christ? Well, this very simple version at its most basic components represents the initials for Christou Iēsou. The first letter for Jesus’ name in Greek is ‘I’ and the first letter for Christ in Greek is ‘X.' Simply fascinating. Here is your proof for the skeptic. Even more literally, the personal name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus, could be seen as the letter ‘i,’ looking very much like a stick-man, placed upon a cross, representing here the mantle of Messiah in the title/name Christ. Thus, the snowflake represents perfectly the person of Jesus magnified at the center of the title-role-function-name “Christ.” The universe testifies of God, His Christ, and Him glorified.
Even more amazing—if you looked at the snowflake at this timestamp closely, you may have noticed a figure that looks very much like the Star of David at its center. Do you now realize what that star means? It is the symbol given to the Jews by oppressors in ancient times to mark them as a people waiting for the Messiah they did not recognize. If you place the asterisk over the Star of David, you find that Christ fulfills the missing center of the faith for David’s people. God is good… all the time. God be praised!
If you’d like to learn more about symbols used over the ages and more specifically monograms of Christ, you might check out the link below. I’ve set it up using an Amazon affiliate link, but feel free to get it at your local library if available.
Snowflake, asterisk, and flag images used on this page supplied by Pixabay.