For several months I have noticed that certain colors are used in television commercials, a lot of blues, purples, and reds, for sure. But the color that stimulated my thinking was orange. Commercial after commercial, I saw some form of orange. I asked myself, sounding like I was a writer on the Seinfeld show, “What’s Up with that color?”
I was curious, so I decided I’d check it out. The first thing that popped up on my internet search was the following explanation, “In the marketing world, orange is often used to portray youth, playfulness, and being bold. Orange is usually seen as healthy, energizing, and attention-grabbing.” That’s a positive spin, answering my question about the color orange.
Stopping to think about the color orange outside of the marketing world, a memory popped in my mind of the time I painted the living room, dining room, and the hallway leading to the bedrooms the color orange. I even painted the main bedroom orange. (Notice that I did not try to be cute and say, “Master Suite.”)
My youngest son, never one to bite his tongue, spoke his mind and pointed out, accurately, that I would soon see the negative side on the color orange. He said, “Don’t you think after a while, the orange will get to you, perhaps cause some emotional reactions that are not good?” He ended with a prediction, “Sooner or later, all that orange will get on your nerves, even your last one!”
He was right? After a few months, the orange colored, painted walls did in fact get on my last nerve. So, I started a transformation project to get rid of all that orange. Why? Because I found myself being irritated, agitated by so much of the color. I asked the same question, “What’s up with that color?”
Enough about the color orange, Let’s talk about another color, a color that has positive implications for all who will confess Jesus Christ as their Savior. Yes, let us think of the scarlet thread that runs from Genesis through Revelation. Yes, let’s talk about the blood that Jesus shed for you and me on Calvary and assured us the we could declare, “I know it was the blood for me!” You know, the blood of which we sing, “The blood that gives me strength from day to day and it will never, ever, never lose its power!” Scarlet, red, a color if looked through accurately through the prism of salvation and the Savior’s shedding of blood on the cross, we will not ask the question, “What’s up with that color?” We don’t need to inquire about that color! The answer has already been explained in the word of God. Read the closing verses! Think about the positive truth, for its not a spin by any means on the color red. Praise God! Thank the Lord for sending His Son! Thank the Son for dying for our sins, dying and giving us a way to have eternal life. Have a great day! Be blessed!
“And almost all things are cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these things, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a holy place made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year by year with blood that is not his own. Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been revealed to put away sin]by the sacrifice of Himself. And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.” (Hebrews 9:22-28 New American Standard Bible)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King