Paint the rainbow.
That’s from the Skittles commercial. It means to put joy into our lives using the little candy treat. They come in a rainbow of colors, and if we share them to enough people, the happiness of candy will infiltrate our days. The direct correlation is that unhappiness will fade away, and our days will be bright and cheerful.
What we’re really doing is shifting our focus from what’s bad in our lives to what’s good. We’re choosing to ignore the storm clouds that threaten to dampen our party and have a good time anyway. We’re making a pointed effort to think on things that are fun and good and let our dour thoughts evaporate like gray skies when the sun shines through.
We’re painting a rainbow of joy over every situation, and we’re finding happiness where there was only sadness before.
God paints his rainbow with the brilliance of every color in creation. God uses white, the result of combining every wavelength of light into one. Take a rainbow, squeeze it back into one ray of light, and it becomes white, the result of all colors combined into one.
Let’s see how God paints his rainbow across his creation.
Isaiah 1:18 whips out his majestic and magnificent brush:
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”
God’s rainbow of white sweeps across our sins, and they are as if they never were. Even red, the hardest stain to remove, is gone as if it never was.
1 John 1:7 says we can choose to be painted with God’s rainbow:
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
It’s that simple. We choose him, and his brush sweeps across us, the shifting colors of his righteousness changing us into purest white.
We’ve been painted with God’s rainbow.
When the love of God flows over us, we change until we look nothing like we did before.
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