"The Color Wheel"

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In the middle year of my daughter's sophomore year of High School she changed schools.  She had been having a lot of trouble at the school she'd been attending.  It was a large school and had been having it's share of trouble with gangs, drugs, and general behavior problems.  My daughter wasn't into drugs or gangs, but had no interest in school and was barely passing.  Nothing I or her teachers had to say to her seemed to help.  She had been having similar problems in elementary school.  When we moved and she started attending the new school something seemed to change.

I asked her one day what was different and she told me, "It's different at this school.  At the other school, there were a lots of different groups of people.  There are the jocks, geeks, losers, druggies, brainers, computer nerds, actors, singers, etc, etc.  (I don't remember them exactly, but everyone had some kind of label).   At this school, there are only two groups, the losers and the winners.  I couldn't call myself a loser so I had to be a winner."

That statement says it all.  When we live in a gray world where we can blend into some group and still be okay, we will do just that.  In a black and white world, we are forced to make a choice.

The Lord keeps bringing the above story back to me, I just can't seem to let it go.  He keeps showing me ways in which His Kingdom is just like my daughter's school.  One day, He gave me a vision of a speaker standing on a stage who was explaining God to the audience.  On one side of him there was a color wheel with multiple colors, shades, and hues.  On the other side was one that was totally white on one side and totally black on the other.  

The person proceeded to talk about God using these two items  as props.  He told the people that many of them were like the color wheel in that they were multi-colored.  While it is good that we are varied and that each one of us is an original, here the man was talking about the subject in reference to our walk and our true heart when it came to God in our everyday lives.  He talked about choices needed and the lack of choices made.  He talked about those people who tend to "sit on the fence" and refuse to commit themselves one way or another.  He talked about those who spoke one thing while in church and another while in the world.  He showed how we could pick from this wheel just what "color" of Christian we wanted to be.  There was absolutely no white or black on this wheel.    He then walked over to the other wheel.  

Here, he showed a different kind of choice.  There were only two choices on this wheel.  You were either for God (white) or you were against God (black).  It was cut and dried.  Missing were any "gray" areas or pretty colors.  Gone were the separations.  He showed us that God does not want us to carbon copies of one another, He wants us to be carbon copies of His Son, Jesus.  

We are all familiar with the scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:18 where it states:

"But we all, with unveiled face, 

beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,

 and being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,

 just as by the Spirit of the Lord."