Color Blind

I recently watched a movie with several different nationalities in it…and for some of the film I was confused, as the genetics were not matching up and no one was explaining the rationale as to how the family members could belong to each other. Then I read the summary of the movie online, and they said it was considered a “color-blind” film, where they just used several different people, regardless of their nationality and didn’t try to match the genetics.  Then it made sense to me, AND I thought it very clever and appropriate for today’s world!

The next day, I read a devotional from Our Daily Bread about a speaker at a graduation ceremony encouraging the seniors to think about how they were going to make decisions in a way to live for Jesus. Again, I was confused, as it didn’t mention this was a Christian school graduation, so I thought, “how many unbelieving students are listening to this and not understanding or worse, not caring?”

Then it hit me, and I connected these two scenarios:  God is “color-blind” and His gospel is no respecter of persons, meaning it is for everyone, regardless of color and genealogy. What a beautiful concept! Just as in the movie, God has created a rainbow of people on this earth and expects us to live and work in harmony.  Further, just as in the graduation speech, we as believers need to be bold and comfortable in speaking about God and His Word, as if our audience knows what we’re talking about.  And if they don’t, God will work on their hearts and minds to bring about the understanding…our job is simply to tell them; His is to change lives.

This doesn’t mean, of course, that we are insensitive to our surroundings and the people with whom we are talking - we don’t just blurt “Jesus loves you!” out of the blue, with no appropriate context.  But it DOES mean that we should not be intimidated to speak of Him from the love in our hearts to anyone who will listen. It is possible that someone will hear us > be confused > ask questions > and then - praise God - find the answers!

Our world needs to be color-blind… and to remember that we are all the same on the
inside, regardless of our skin color - kinda like M&M’s!
And if we could do that, what a ‘delicious’ world this would be! ;-)