Rainbow Heart Part 2

Well here we are again, and I would like to talk about my heart again. It is my heart in color form that I wish to discuss. So this is a whole new set of colors, and we will be working with a whole different spectrum. We got the basic colors last time, the expected spectrum. Now it's time to mix things up a bit and get a little crazy. Well, not exactly crazy, but lets throw in some fun. So let's get started having fun. Are you ready? Well, ready or not, here we go!

Pink - Are you surprised I picked pink first? You shouldn't be. God knows I wear it enough. My room is even painted a particular shade of pink that could be called peach. But everyone knows its really pink in disguise. Let's not kid ourselves. I love the color pink. It makes me happy, and I happen to look really good in pink. If you had to break down the coloring of my skin pallette into a seasonal shade, I most match the season of Spring. So Spring colors look best on me. Don't ask me how that happened, cause my Mom is definitely a Fall color pallette. Anyway, thats your dress for success color scheme lesson for the day. Let's get back to talking about pink and what it makes me feel. When I think of pink, I think of unicorns, and My Little Pony, which was my favorite toy as a child, and probably still is my favorite toy today, if I played with toys. Come on, admit it, you wish you still could play with toys too. Anyway, I think of princess's being rescued, and of every fairy tale I have ever heard. It make's me wish upon a star, and hope that my dreams will come true some day. In short, pink is the color of dreams, and makes me feel wistful. I know I am not making this a very spiritual color, but since when do all colors have to have a spiritual meaning behind them? Or maybe pink is more spiritual than we think it is, or than I am giving it credit for. If I look closer at the princess being rescued part, Jesus did say that one day He is coming again for His bride, the church. He is going to rescue her from this world, and there is going to be a fabulous wedding feast. And there you have it. I took pink all the way from unicorns to Jesus marrying the church. Ta-dah! One can only hope that day is sooner rather than later, because this world is getting CRAZY! Ok, enough about pink. Let's check out the next color.

Silver - Silver makes me think of stars. Funny cause pink made me think of wishing upon a star. Anyway, back to silver. There are more stars in the sky than can be counted. And yet God has counted them all, and not only that, He knows them all by name. This astounds me. Cause guess what else the Bible says God does? It tells me that His thoughts towards me are more than the sand on the beaches. So how is God keeping track of all the stars, and thinking all these wonderous thoughts towards me? Amazing, isn't it? And He counts all the hairs on my head, and your head too, and He knows when one falls out. It is comforting to know that He takes such an interest in even the smallest minute detail of my life. So this silver color makes me stand in awe of a God who is so detail oriented that He can keep track of all the matters of the universe, and yet so loving and kind towards me, that He wants to pay attention to the smallest detail of my life. If He pays that much attention to my hair, how much more so when I am floundering in my finances, or my love life is completely going awry? Or how about when my family life is about to bust wide open, or friendships are making me cry? Surely He must care about all of it. That doesn't mean He is a genie in the sky and He is just going to let me rub the magic lamp and now BOOM! He is going to fix everything for me. But it does mean He is working everything for my good. What an amazing loving God we serve. I just love Him so much. How can you not love Him? He just pursues and pursues my heart till all I can do is surrender to Him. Amazing.

Gold - Gold makes me think of crowns and jewels and riches beyond my wildest imaginings. I know precious stones aren't gold, but gold makes me think of them too. And this makes me think of all the blessings that God has to offer. And then I sit and compare the two. And they are not worthy to be compared. I dare you to ask me which would I rather have. All the riches of the world, or all the blessings God wants to bestow on my life? I will just tell you the answer. I will take God's blessings over any riches any day hands down. God knows far better what is best for me than I ever will, and I want Him directing my life, all the way. I learned rather quickly when I landed in the hospital this last time, that what I have been saying in this blog from the beginning is so true. God's way is the only way to go, and He is working everything together for my good. And the simple fact, I have absolutely no control over my life or where it ends up. It is virtuous to have self-control, to be sure. I may be able to control myself to some degree. But even that I am not so sure I have that much control over, except for the grace of God be with me. So God, be with me always, and guide me, please.

Black - Black makes me think of sin and death. I know this is not an uplifting color, but it must be addressed. Black also makes me think of darkness and night, and how most sins are done in the night and in darkness. I guess thats why fear gripped me just before I went into the hospital when I was at my parents house and I looked outside and it was pitch black one night. It was the night before it snowed in Virginia the last time in March, before Easter. I couldn't see the Moon, or any stars, and all there was, was darkness. I knew evil was afoot. I just don't know what it was up to. I still don't know. But one thing is for sure. It was thwarted that night. Jesus has won the victory over sin and death. He won the victory when He died on the cross for our sins, and defeated the grave when he rose from the dead on the 3rd day. Glory to God! That is the good news of the gospel. If you simply believe this, you will be saved, and you can have a relationship with Jesus, and He will come into your heart. Yes, I know. I am always trying to slip the message of the gospel in there somewhere. I can't seem to help it though. It's just such good news, and I have to spread it around!

White - Ah, so now we come to white. White makes me think of purity and cleanness. So now we come back to the topic of purity, what this blog is named for, after all. What more is there to be said about purity? Jesus died to make us pure. Jesus died to blot out sins from the face of the earth. He died to make it so that it would be as if we had never sinned in the first place. So it is the blood of Jesus that washes away our sins and makes us white as snow. It says in the Bible that in God's kingdom, we will be given white robes to wear, representing our new standing as the righteous children of God. What a beautiful picture this is. Jesus has take our place, and dies for us. But everyone gets their reward in the end. Jesus doesn't get nothing for His sacrifice. Do you realize what Jesus gets for dying for us? He gets you and me, in His arms forevermore! That's all He ever wanted. This just amazes me. Do you realize that if you were the only person on this planet that needed saving, Jesus would die for just you? I realized that when I was in the hospital, not to belabor the point that I was in the hospital, but I am trying to make a point. I realized that Jesus died to save just me. Only me. And He succeeded in every way. And now I am so grateful that I want to help Him, in my own way, save everyone else. I know I am only one person. But I can only hope to reach even just one of you. If I do that, I would be wildly successful. I hope I am reaching more than one of you, since you all keep reading my blog =)

Brown - Have you ever mixed a whole bunch of colors together? Usually you end up getting some form of brown. Which is interesting. So I guess brown is a combination of all kinds of colors. What does this tell us? You can always find your way back to brown. But once you mix colors to make brown, its impossible to get the colors unmixed to get the original colors back to the pure form. So you better be sure you want brown. That's true whenever you mix any two colors together. Brown makes me think of animals. I know thats not really related. Anyway, lets just go with it. Specifically, I think of bears and dogs. But it makes me think of animals in general and this makes me think of the beauty of God's creation. Maybe I mentioned God's creation in an earlier color, but creation is so beautiful, it's worth mentioning again. I have a soft spot in my heart for animals. I wanted to go to school originally to be a veternarian, but I couldn't get past the Chemistry classes. So I took Accounting instead, which was far easier for me, even though it took me 14 years to get my degree. Crazy, I know. But what I love about animals is they have an intelligence about them. They may not be human, but they certainly have personalities, and they have feelings just like we do. They may not be able to understand things like humans can, such as history or politics. But they know when someone is kind, and they know when someone is cruel. And they can love unconditionally, regardless of how you look, or what you wear or what you drive. What a blessing God has given us in animals!

Well, that is the end of Rainbow Heart Part 2. I hope you have enjoyed it. Maybe I will pick more fun colors for Rainbow Heart Part 3. In the mean time, I am already thinking about my next post. It should be coming out soon, in the next few days. Again, feel free to spread this blog abroad to your friends and family. I am not shy about these things and I don't mind my views being shown to everyone. I wish you all would introduce yourselves to me or make comments. I am sorry if I have offended anyone. I was just speaking my mind, and I have taken down some offensive posts. Oh, and I would like prayer for some personal stuff I am going through right now. Maybe I will tell you all what it is later. In the mean time, just pray. This has been just more thoughts from the mind of Crystal.

by: Crystal Nylander