During my morning walks with my friend Virginia we each occasionally take our cameras with us. We both like taking pictures of life all around us. It's been so hot here in Florida lately that many of the more colorful flowers are parched. I have some color in our front yard but only because I douse them with the hose every other day. I am normally drawn to colorful things more than just the white, but due to the lack of more brilliant color, I noticed that white flowers, however, seem to be everywhere, and are doing quite well even without extra water.
They are generally surrounded by the dark green leaves for contrast. Isn't it wonderful of God to have made them this way? We would not appreciate the white if everything were that color [BTW, there are several theories as to whether light is a color. I'll let you read those HERE.] The color white is refreshing and shows as much or more detail than any other color but you have to look closely to see it. Something that is perfectly white, totally unstained and clean, draws our attention so much more than something that is say, perfectly green, blue or red. Think of a white wedding dress, a white dog, an albino peacock (I have seen one of these), or a brand new baby's diaper.
White is all around us -- white clouds, ocean wave caps, sunlight--but we are hardly aware of it. In the beginning when God said Let there be light His glory was shown through illumination to all that would be created afterwards. Maybe the color white is a tiny amount of that glory and purity. It reminds us that the Creator is the perfect example of holiness and that we are not alone in the dark places where we may find ourselves. He is just waiting for us to notice.
Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes,
His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen,
being understood through what has been made,
so that they are without excuse.
so that they are without excuse.
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