#107 Colors(14sep06)

Dear ...

'Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?'
John 11: 40

It was reported in the newswire that young men are increasingly turning to anabolic steroids in response to their growing obession with the ideal body.
Paralleling the trend to shortcut the process of enhancing one's physique, is the equally worrying tendency to use heroin, crack cocaine and Ecstasy pills - drugs that help to delude the mind, what eludes these young lives in their brawn.

Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors.
The ability of the human eye to distinguish colors is based upon the varying sensitivity of different cells in the retina to light of different wavelengths.

Are these young men blinded by their sense of insecurity, pride, envy or pure foolishness or youthful bravado to consider inconsequential, the dangers of using such drugs to sate temporarily their insatiable obsessions??

Just a couple of days back, as I was reading with the foreign students in my daughter's school, as part of the programme to help them improve their spoken English, a couple of phrases related to colors were used in the book we read.

"To be red in the face" is an expression of anger". The only dissenter to that expression would be a cooked lobster, but then, the views of the dead are irrelevant.

"To be ashen white" would probably mean that you have just met a ghost(or in my Christian parlay, a fallen angel masquerading as a dead yet kicking human) or that you are medically so ill, that you might not be far from the possibility of meeting one in Hades(depending upon your inclination while alive).

"To be green with envy" is not a case of overdosage of a good thing, for while not scientifically provened, I do know of a friend whose grain based vegetarian diet turned him yellow, but not green. Maybe the originator of this phrase mean't to spell 'grim" and not "green."

Color blindness comes as a result of a lack of one or more of the types of color receptors in the deficient. It was reported that 10% of males have a color perception defect, but this is rare in females.

How God provides.
Males generally stick to the safe colors of blue and black(in their dressing) and maybe add on brown(for their shoes).
Imagine the upheaval in the boutiques and other hunting grounds of the fairer specie, should there be a surfeit of color blindness which might still not daunt the ladies in their herculean ability to mix and match a vastly diversified portfolio of everything.

Darkness is the absence of light.

Irregardless of our beliefs, unless one lives by a different benchmark from the norm or one is entrenched in a surreal world of our own delusion, our world today and in the past have always been couched in the darkness of human deprivation and depravation.

Many are blind to the sufferings and miseries around them, in their short sighted pursuit of what is at best temporal
Worst, many choose to not see the discoloration and erosion in their emotional, physical and moral fibre, in the blind pursuit of the kaleidoscope-liked earthly desires.

'...vanities of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
One generation passeth away; and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever...'
Ecclesiastes 1:4-5

Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye.

'Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many....'
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8

I believe most of us somewhere in our lives, have had the opportunity to witness the light of a fellow human being, being permanently snuffed out.
The face takes on the pallid color of death, the warmth is replaced by the cold stiffness of a departed soul, but wherewithal does their souls go to??

I have included in today's sharing, a testimony by David, a brother in Christ from the Bible-Onine college. David is battling an advanced stage of stomach cancer. Some of you might have read his blog on how God walked with him through this very real storm in his life.
This latest update by him gives a vivid description of his recent experience with the clutches of death and how God brought him back.

All of us will have to meet our Maker. Our bodily system will struggle as it draws desperately upon the last gasp of breath, like a machine on its last leg.
Yet, for those who have learnt to trust the Lord our God, the azure blue serenity of that God given peace, joy and reassurance, that Jesus Christ will walk with them will be the lasting legacy left for the living us, of a certainty, in the face of the perceived realms of the great unknown that they are about to enter.


What about the living us.

Will we be meeting Jesus Christ with a purified whiter than white heart, or a black as charcoal, steely cold heart??

'The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it??'
Jeremiah 17:10

Only God can

'I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruits of his doing'
Jeremiah 17:10

What you must do is to place God not just as the center but the only focus of your life

'He trusted in the Lord God of Israel........
For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments....'
2 Kings 18:5-6


'A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary....'
Jeremiah 17:12

'O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.'
Jeremiah 17:13

For God has brought back life to our(ie those who believe, repent and trust Him) pallid, heavily stained soul

'Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed, save me and I shall be saved.....'
Jeremiah 17:14

http://dc1604.blogspot.com/2006/09/cords-of-death.html

God Blesses

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