Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:03:34 -0600
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/02/01 "What Color Is the Person --
GREEN"
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WHAT COLOR IS THE PERSON?
MONDAY -- Part 1 of 5
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Someone said, "Skin color is only the wrapping in which a person
comes." One of the saddest commentaries on the state of the human race
is the prejudice that still exists among races and ethnic groups in today's
society.
Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed of a day when people in our society
would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their
character.
Prejudice is terribly cruel and needs to be recognized and fought
in each of us until we are as free from it as possible. People who live
in bodies of different skin colors have many more similarities than differences.
That is why each of us needs to reach out to those of different races
and share the love of Jesus as well as our personal friendship.
Adam's fallen nature taints each of us differently on the "inside."
Our culture attaches certain colors to these personal Adamic traits.
GREEN
Some of God's people are green, being consumed with jealousy. These
"green-eyed monsters" are seldom preached about, but the Bible is full
of examples of how they have devoured people. Look what the envy of Cain
drove him to do. He was the first murderer in the Bible (see Genesis 4:1-12).
Lot also was tainted with this same kind of green envy. He envied
the possessions and wealth of Abraham. When Abraham was generous enough
to give Lot a choice of the land, Lot chose the lush, green valley of Sodom
and Gomorrah. Only the grace of God rescued Lot and his family from covetousness
(see Genesis 13,14).
One thing that all envious people have in common is that they find
it difficult to rejoice with those who are rejoicing. They wonder why good
things are happening to everyone else but never to them. Jealous people
tend to be takers rather than givers.
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:04:43 -0600
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/03/01 "What Color Is the Person -- RED"
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WHAT COLOR IS THE PERSON?
TUESDAY -- Part 2 of 5
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RED
Many of God's people are tainted with red. This is the color people
"see" when they are angry. These people are seething with anger, and sometimes
this turns to rage.
Since we feel guilty about the anger and rage in us, many Christians
deny that it is there. We want to blame it on our ethnic background. We
say something like, "Well I came from an Irish family," or, "We Italians
are just loud." It does not make any difference what part of the world
you have come from, what ethnic group you represent. Every human being
knows what it is to beangry at times.
Even those people who say they are not usually angry experience it
eventually. Such people, who may rarely raise their voices, express anger
in other ways. You can hear it and you can feel it in their use of irony,
sarcasm and cynicism. I have yet to meet a person who does not
at least sometimes experience anger.
God does not want us to be overwhelmed with guilt because we are
angry. He will forgive us for being angry.
Here are four important steps in dealing with anger:
1. Admit that anger is a part of every
person's life.
2. Become aware of anger's impact on you
and aware of the feelings you sense when you know you are angry.
3. Control that feeling of anger.
4. Direct anger in ways that will not be
destructive to relationships or to property.
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:05:38 -0600
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/04/01 "What Color Is the Person -- BLUE"
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WHAT COLOR IS THE PERSON?
WEDNESDAY -- Part 3 of 5
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BLUE
Most of us know what it is to be blue once in a while, but some people
wear hints of blue much of the time. These people are depression prone.
Sometimes this tendency may be inherited and, at other times, members of
the family have modeled it for them. There is both a genetic component
and an environmental component in people who are depression-prone.
Those who are genetically predisposed to being depressed would be
the most easily helped, as their problem can be corrected largely through
medical means. The biggest challenge for the person who is genetically
predisposed to depression is in the area of self-concept.
Some people think that they are somehow defective if they have any
predisposition toward depression. However, these people would have no difficulty
accepting a predisposition to heart disease or lung disease or some other
kind of medical problem.
In counseling people who have a genetic predisposition to depression,
this is one of the things they must understand: This is a medical problem
and it should be looked at as a medical problem. It should in no way affect
the way a person sees himself or herself.
If depression has been modeled for you--that is, you have been raised
by people who focus on the negative side of themselves--then just coming
to the place where you recognize your depression is a major challenge.
Once you have accepted that it comes from a way you have learned
to think about yourself and think about life, then comes learning to think
and feel differently about yourself. This is a protracted discipline that
the Lord must help you to acquire over a period of time.
God has given us abounding love, tremendous hope, and faith. These
are the graces of the Spirit. Paul calls attention to them in the last
verse of 1 Corinthians 13 when he says, "And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love." (NKJV)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:06:14 -0600
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/05/01 "What Color Is the Person -- BLACK"
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WHAT COLOR IS THE PERSON?
THURSDAY -- Part 4 of 5
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BLACK
The Scriptures certainly talk about blackness and darkness and associate
these colors with sin. Remember though, black is a combination of all colors.
When we think about sin, we are including envy, jealousy, anger,
and depression. All of these colors splatter across the human race.
While some people may be characterized as envious and others may
be extremely angry or depression prone, the fact of the matter is most
of us as human beings struggle with one or more of these besetting sins.
The effect is to be cut off from God's light and love and be cloaked in
darkness.
It is a part of our pride to deny the darkness that is within us.
For there is no pit of inquiry or den of sin in any city that has not been
created by the desires of the human heart and the imagination of fallen
humanity's mind.
It is the nature of sin to lure us to the forbidden, and when we
are involved in the forbidden, we want to be in the dark. That is why John
calls us into the light: "If we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another" (1 John 1:7). God calls us out of
darkness into light.
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:06:37 -0600
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/06/01 "What Color Is the Person -- WHITE"
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WHAT COLOR IS THE PERSON?
FRIDAY -- Part 5 of 5
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WHITE
Just as people can become green with envy and jealousy, red with
anger, blue with depression, and black with sin, through the blood of Jesus
Christ they can be made white.
God looks beyond the color of your skin and when He does, He sees
a person on the inside that He wants to make as white as snow. Isaiah said,
"Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18).
As you stumble around in the darkness you may lose your way, but
when you walk in the light of God, you see where things are and avoid stumbling
and falling. God wants to lighten your path and cleanse your heart.
If your life is tainted by envy, if you are seething with anger,
if you are discouraged and depressed, why not admit these things to yourself
and to God? He does not care about the color of your skin, but He is vitally
interested what colors you as a person.
Open your heart to Jesus today. Confess your sins to Him. Let Him
cleanse you from the things that pollute your life and bring to you the
peace and joy you long for.
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