A few weeks ago we drew and painted disco balls in Art class. The final step was to splatter their creations with fluorescent paint. I handed them colors one by one as they requested them. All was going as planned until one student asked for green. I handed him green. He insisted it was blue. When I handed him blue he insisted it was green. I eventually had him point to the color he wanted instead of naming them. There was no reasoning with him. He was sure he was right and would not be convinced otherwise. The problem? He was color blind. He wouldn’t believe the truth I was telling him. He didn’t believe there was anything wrong with his “vision”.

Being color blind can be inconvenient. We once had a builder put two pieces of siding up that didn’t match the rest. When I asked him about it he explained he was color blind. He needed me to point out which ones were the wrong color so he could correct his mistake.

When someone has faulty vision is it kinder to keep quiet or to help them see their error? Does believing blue is green make it so?

I can be blind to the truth too. I want something and so will adjust the “rules” to justify my wrong thinking. Oh well. What is the harm? As long as I’m not hurting anyone why not bend the truth to suit my wants, even going so far as doing away with inconvenient truth.

God has lovingly laid out truth for us, not because He is a cosmic kill joy, but because He, as our creator, knows what we were made for. Just like blue was made to paint the sky…we have a choice to follow His plan or follow our own plan.

Will we say, “No” to the God who made us because we think we are wiser? Will our goal be to satisfy whatever we think will make us happy, or because we want what we want and have become our own god?

The cost to follow Christ is real. He paid the ultimate cost of our redemption. Out of love we follow Him with every fiber or our being. Willing to give up whatever He asks, willing to follow His truth instead of my own. Do we love Him enough to trust Him with the rules He has put in place?

Truth does not change. Blue will always be blue.

For Further Study: Isaiah 5:20; Luke 11:28; Philippians 2:15