The colors of the rainbow.
Lately the grandchildren have been bringing home the prettiest scratch art from Sunday school. If you are not familiar with Scratch art, it is done with a scratch board, thin white clay, or colored with crayons, then mix laundry detergent with black paint and cover over the first coating. When it is completely dry, use your creativity to expose the under layer by scratching out a picture or design with a toothpick or stylist. You can be a minimalist and only expose a little or make a large design and expose more of the colors.
They have had three crosses on a hill, a fish and a square card. By scratching through the blackness on the top, they bring color to the void. The use of multi colors underneath makes for a beautiful and unusual picture.
I think God loves color! Color brings happiness, cheerfulness and lightheartedness. In the beginning God made a beautiful garden, with beautiful animals in it. Like peacocks, macaws, and flowers beyond description. Then later on he put a rainbow in the sky, one of beautiful color, not just black and white, (which He could have easily done), and now he is building a new city, full of color!
Our lives are like a piece of Scratch art. What God intended for us, beautiful and made in His image, and then we were covered by sin, and our lives became dark. Now all we have to do is ask Jesus to use a stylist on us and reveal the beautiful possibility of happy colors we have within ourselves. By scratching away the sin, more and more of the colors will be exposed. Don’t you want to be all you can be?
As parents we need to teach our children to never let the sins of the world hid our inner beauty. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, and that life will be in a beautiful city, full of life and color!
We as authors can only hope to write and describe things the way they are described in the Bible. The problem is, the Bible is a Devine work of literature and we are privileged to have it at our fingertips.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Revelation 4:3
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Revelation 21:11, 18-21