Thursday, September 15, 2011

Coloring the Bible

I haven’t colored with crayons for quite a while, but this morning Zaire shared his big bag of crayons with me.  Josh and Leigh shared some of their colors too.   If one of them had a shade that just a bit different than one of Zaire’s crayons, he wanted me to try it out.

Sharing crayons is kinda like sharing tools or fishing lure’s for big people.  You know...you can only share them with good friends, so I was feelin’ kinda special.

We were all working on the same picture.  In the front of this coloring book page was the giant head of Goliath, who was holding his very large spear.  In the back of the picture stood David, who had just released a stone from his sling. 

We decided that Goliath should have orange hair like my son, John.  Goliath’s spear was a few shades of red since Zaire, Josh and Leigh all have a little bit different shades of red.   I got to color the grass green, and our river ended up not blue but black.  Between David and Goliath there was a stone, which because it was in the sky, reminded us of the sun.  We made it bright yellow and got a little wide of the lines to show movement, or maybe size(?); cuz’ as you know, it was sailing toward Goliath’s head.

In the end it all got me to thinkin’.   I was reminded of my son, John, who at the same age as Zaire, Josh and Leigh, was coloring in the Big Bible Coloring Book at around easter time.  His page was a picture of Jesus on the cross.  Last week John was telling this story to a group of high school kids as his testimony.

While he was coloring, he asked his mom about what was going on in the picture and why the man was on the cross.  His mom explained the simple story of Jesus’ death on the cross as the payment for the forgiveness of our sins.  She told him that Jesus loved us so much that He took our place on the cross.  That night we also told John that Jesus did not stay dead, but He came alive again.  John knelt down by our couch and asked Jesus to come into his heart on the night he was “coloring the Bible.” 

Isn’t a blessing that Mrs. Truthan and Mrs. Cochran can hand out Bible pictures in their classroom for the children to color?  The Bible says that “the Word of God will not return void.”  What does that mean?  Just this: when we are reading or being reminded of God’s Word, God Himself, speaks to us and we have the ability to speak back to Him.  It’s called prayer.

Who knows?  Maybe God was speaking to three boys this morning while they helped me color David and Goliath.   More tomorrow on “coloring the Bible”, but right now we better pray.

Father in Heaven, as we learn Your Word in our Bible times, our chapels, our art and in all our school subjects, make us wide awake to all You are saying to us.  Thank You for using all these ways, including “coloring the Bible,” to talk to us.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Proud of you,
Pastor Wilson   


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