Making the Colors

God is good. It's a phrase I've recently picked up from new friends, and I seem to have more reason to utter it everyday. God is good, and perfect, and caring, and majestic. He is all-powerful in ways humans literally can not even fathom. And something recently struck me, which made this all the more true.

The Colors. When was the last time you thought about them by themselves rather than how cars and clothes look in them? For me, the answer was very long ago, if ever. Yesterday, though, I was outside, glorying in His beautiful day, and looking at the sky. I was admiring how perfectly the deep, rich green of the tree's leaves complimented the light, clear blue of the sky, and it struck me that someone made this. Not just this but every color I've ever heard of, and not just someone, but the God of the universe that I complain to on a regular basis because I think my petty little problems are important in the grand scheme of God's lifespan (a.k.a. forever).

Immediately, my mind rejected the thought. I tried to imagine living in a world with out not only color, but the absence of color, and my mind said "No, it's not possible. God couldn't have created this because no one could." Thankfully, that was when everything I know about God came back into the equation. I realized I was thinking of God like I think of myself, and that, whether I could imagine it or not, God did have the power to imagine the concept of light and color, and bring it into being with his very words. (I am taking a liberty here and asuming that color was created when light was.) Then, to clinch the subject, I tried to imagine the glory of color being an accident, and all common sense rejected the idea ten times more strongly than it had the idea of a person creating them. That was not an option.

Our God is the God of color. Take a look at Noah. When, after forty days and forty nights, he and his family are set free of their ark to repopulate the world being promised this will never happen again, God seals the deal with the first rainbow. And he promises that every time he sees the colors He Himself has created in the clouds He will remember the covenant with Noah and all the creatures of the earth. To God, the rainbow is a sign of a covenant, but to us, it could be a reminder of the mighty, glorious, beauty-loving God we worship, and a reassurance of His love for us.