We know the story of color. We’ve read about, even lived with it. Shine a white light on any surface, and it illuminates every detail. Use only red, green, yellow or brown, and we’ll see part of the image, but we’ll not get all of the picture.
This works because white light is filled with the complexity of every color in existence. Red, green, yellow, and brown, they’re all mixed in. Leave out one, and we no longer have white light. It’s shifted from true, become less pure. We no longer see the fullness of the truth available to us.
Isaiah 11:6-9 reflects on the Truth of Color:
“The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
The prophet’s words reveal a magnitude of knowledge that many people struggle with today. This passage is about the coming Kingdom of Christ. Isaiah gives us examples of enemies coexisting peacefully with one another. The wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the goat. The cow and the bear, the child and the poisonous snake. None shall be an aggressor, and none shall be a victim. No one shall hurt, and no one shall do the hurting. It will be a time of perfect peace.
How is this possible? Here we find the true majesty in Isaiah’s proclamation. It will happen because “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.”
The Truth of Color is that in the Lord’s eyes, there is no color. There is no second class and no favored class. There is no “good” ethnic background and no “bad” one. These are things humanity has brought on itself. God’s plan is for colorblind love, the kind that flows to everyone, the hurting and the blessed alike. The Father sees us with eyes of love. The fullness of the truth is found in the knowledge of the King, and in that fullness, one day his kingdom will reign in peace upon the earth.
The more we learn the nature of Jesus, the closer we are to living his example before everyone we meet.
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Originally Published 11-20-16 in Relationships