Many choose a word to live by at the beginning of the New Year. For
example, my friend Julie chose the word give and I love what she wrote about
it.
But, I didn’t know there was a color of the year until I saw Pantone’s
pick for 2018. Pantone is the innovator of a system which allows manufacturers
and designers to match colors. That way when a company
in the USA wants a blouse in Holly Red, the designer in France can look at
their Pantone chart and match it. (I don’t know if there is a Holly Red, but
you get the idea.)
If I needed to choose a color for the year, what color might I choose?
Maybe a sea green. I just
painted a bathroom a version of that color.
As I was thinking about this, I came across a powerful video.
In the video Remi Onayemi says, “When we understand what Christ has
done through his life, death, burial, and resurrection, it begins to color everything
that we do. We realize we are here on this earth for a special purpose, and
that purpose is to know God through His word and to make Him known or to make
disciples. This means I think missionally about everything I do.”
Then I knew. I want my color for this year and every year to be Jesus. I
long for Him to color every relationship I have and everything I do, say, and
write. I want my life to be saturated with Him.
Jesus said it this way in The Message translation of Matthew 5:14, “Here’s
another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors
in the world. God is not a secret to be kept.”
So, let’s go for it in 2018.
Let’s allow God to use our lives as His paintbrush coloring the world
for His glory.