GOD'S BOX OF CRAYONS

In the late 19th century a small company in upstate New York manufactured industrial pigments for coloring and drying a wide range of products. Then, in 1903 Binney and Smith found a market niche and produced the first Crayola brand crayons. There were eight colors: black, blue, brown, green, red, yellow, and orange. In 1949 the standard selection increased in 48 colors. and in 1958 they introduced the 64 crayon box with a built-in sharper. We can still buy crayons in the little box with eight colors, but who wouldn't rather have the super gigantic assortment with 120 colors, including inchworm, wild blue yonder, and mango tango?

We all have crayon box; so private and personal, many of them are broken and we wish we could discard, but somehow we feel they are still useful to fill in the white spaces in our life. Colors of all sorts make up our life's tapestry of who we are, were we came from, and were we are going. There are, however, certain colors that we keep hidden, not willing to use or not wanting to share with others. 

Colors in the Bible have special meaning:

• Red is atonement - from the beginning red has been the color of atonement and this atonement is in the form of blood. God wants us to know that sin is costly; it costs the shedding of blood as far back as the Garden of Eden when God killed to first animal to cover Adam and his wife from their nakedness (Gen 3:21). Christ was that final sacrifice on the Cross for all our sins, but we need to acknowledge His gift and atone. 
• White as righteousness - white clearly represents the righteousness of God; specifically to Christ's righteousness on the Cross. Isaiah wrote: "Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though hey are red like crimson, they shall become like wool" (Isaiah 1:18). The Book of Revelation has more about the color white than any book in the New Testament and it most often refers to Christ or an attribute of His. 
• Purple is royalty - when Danie was placed as third in the kingdom of Babylon - "and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, the he should be the third ruler in the kingdom" (Dan 5:29). Royalty is also related to Christ as King. 
• Green as prosperity - prosperity is green, as in greenbacks, but I mean spiritually thriving as a plant does near a stream. David wrote: "But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God" (Ps 52:8). God says of the righteous, "They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green" (Ps 92:13-14).
• Black is death - often the color black is associated with death and darkness (Lam 4:8) that it's hard to know where to begin when we cannot see the pathway. Since we know that God is light and goodness (John 1) then the absence of light is darkness and death as suggested by Micah: "Therefore, it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them" (Micah 3:6). Even the third horse of the Apocalypse was black and spells out bad news for the earth's inhabitants (Rev 6:5-6). Thanks to Christ Jesus, for He has given us the ability to walk in the light when we accept Him as our Savior.

Could it be possible to cover all of the colors with one color -- YES. Christ covers all previous broken crayons (sin) and makes them hole again through His blood (red) and makes us (white) as snow. His love, mercy, and grace takes away death (black) and gives us eternal life in Him.

You may have many broken crayons in your box, but Christ can and will make you hole again. We don't have to live with broke crayons and hope they will be enough to color the spaces in our life (gaps). 

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