I'm So Glad That God is Color Blind

I am so glad that God is color blind.

 

I was out to eat with a few girlfriends last night.  It was a mommy escape date.  A few of us get together at about 9 p.m. and meet up for coffee and dessert every couple of months.  We get our kids settled in bed, get our husbands settled with sports center, and sneak out for some girl time.  It works out great.  There is no guilt of leaving your kids because they are asleep and there is no need to pay a sitter. Most of the time the dear hubby doesn't even realize that you are gone because they are so engrossed in whatever game is being over analyzed.  Anyways, somehow we started discussing the subject of being color blind.  Strange topic, I know.  I informed them that I am an expert on the topic.  I grew up with a color blind father.

 

I was raised in a single parent home for most of my life.  I was the only girl and color and fashion were not my father's forte.  For years he would lay out my clothes every morning for school and not knowing any better, I would dress in whatever he would pick out.  I remember being around 10 years old when I noticed that I didn't dress like all of the other girls at school.  It seemed that my dad would just pull any shirt and put it with any skirt without the thought of matching the colors.  I am the type of person who never wants to hurt anyone's feelings and I was very nervous about asking my dad if I could start picking out my own clothes.  When I finally mustered up the courage, my dad actually seemed relieved.  You see he was color blind and he had no clue what color any of my clothes were.  Once I realized that he was color blind things started to make sense.  We had orange paint on the walls, country blue carpet, and kelly green furniture, but all of the colors looked the same to my dad.  I can remember spending hours upon hours matching all of his socks.  He couldn't tell the brown from the blue from the black.  I asked him why he didn't just buy all of the same color socks and he told me that he thought he had. 

As I went home from my girl's escape night, I continued pondering the idea of not being able to differentiate one color from another one.  It would be a strange life.  My dad can't tell the color's on a traffic light.  Red and green look the same to him.  He has to count the order of the lights to know if he should stop or go.  If you ask him if they both look red or if they both look green he would tell you he doesn't know.  He doesn't know what either of those colors look like.

 

I began to think that must be similar to what God experiences every time that we go to him with a black sinful heart.  We can see the wickedness in our heart as plain as day.  We see each sin and each wrong doing.  We see our lives and our hearts blackened by our sin and our failure to do the good things that God has prompted us to do through the Holy Spirit.  We come before His almighty throne in humbleness to repent.  As we hold our black heart out to Him asking once again for Him to clean us up and make us white again, the perfect, almighty God becomes color blind.  He sees you holding out an offering of a spotless white heart.  It looks the same color as His son's heart.  Just like Jesus' heart, yours is a brilliant white to Him.  In fact every person who has been washed by the blood of the Lamb possesses that same brilliant white heart.  You see Jesus already forgave you of any wrong that you have ever done or ever will do.  When you got saved His heart became what God sees instead of your own.

 

I still find it hard to grasp how a person can not see the vivid shades of the rainbow and tell the difference between them.  Sometimes, I have felt sorry for my dad.  Sometimes, I have just laughed at the crazy outfits that he puts together. (My elementary school pictures prove that!)  But maybe, just maybe, his color blindness is just a glimpse into the wonderful, forgiving God that we serve.

 

Blessed beyond measure,

 

Rachel

P.S.  If you can't read the words in the box at the top, you might want to get your eyes checked :)