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TITLE: The Color of Grace | Previous Challenge Entry
By Richard Adams
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Through the eye of The Master Artist there are countless works of art, masterpieces of continually changing colorful veneers, all gracing a uniquely prepared foundation. A strongly contrasting foundation which began in total blackness and metamorphosed into something beheld as crimson red under close inspection yet spotless white in intense light. Only the Master of color and technique possesses such creativity, blending each hue with every melded shade of the rainbow, in and out of the shadows; into the lighting that best reveals the glory of His subject.
Such a mystery is this masterpiece that it boggles men’s thoughts of order or structure. What…..no, who is so creative as to change even the molecular alignment of life with color? He must be the One who set the rainbow in the Heavens.
Imagine, the deepest Crimson Red…a Blood Red, submersed in the darkest hue like the hemorrhaged fluid of life flowing unhindered. A river of Blood that swallows everything it touches even total darkness. Nothing can penetrate this river of Crimson and if the tiniest speck was to stray from the stream it would indelibly change whatever it touched. Within the plan of The Master, this Crimson Tide eternally applies purity, where corruption reigned, to the canvas that has now become white as snow.
And herein is the wondrous mystery of that pure white canvas under the skillful hand of the Master. Take the color White, it’s the absence of pigment or maybe better stated the purest of colors. White is the universally recognized representation of purity, innocence, cleanliness and sanctity; that’s no coincidence. The Master Artist created it that way.
He holds this canvas in the light of His gaze and begins to create a masterpiece of His image there. It may begin as a living landscape, displaying the Rich Gold and Burnt Umber of autumn seasons or a turbulent seascape in Aqua and Sea Foam Green. With each brush stroke He applies the gifts of creativity onto this pure white backdrop He is redeeming, restoring and recreating with His artistry.
Yet as the living masterpiece takes on its new identity the sanctified purity of it is sealed within and never changes. So much so that even if the Master were to strip away the veneers of color He applied there, the purest of whites remains unaffected, unblemished, undisturbed and not destroyed. The Master created it just so.
White, is the backdrop behind the rainbow of Heaven that blends with the Master’s Light to form the prism of colors He paints into the landscapes of our lives. It is an eternal symbol of His plan of salvation. White is the color of His Grace applied to the canvas of our soul’s story and sealed by His Spirit; secured by the Crimson Tide. White isn’t the absence of color but is the foundation for color to display His glory in heaven.
White, by Divine design, engulfs all obscuring darkness. As the canvas of the Master Artist, this spotless background makes for boundless creativity and wondrous masterpieces in myriads of living color.
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