What Color Will We Be In Heaven

A three year old child takes a random crayon from the box and begins coloring a picture in his coloring book. It may be a picture of a fireman, a teacher, a soldier, a mommy or a daddy --it doesn’t matter. Neither does it matter if he uses a red crayon or a green crayon to color whomever he is coloring. The child will like it regardless of the color he chooses, and his parents will praise him for doing a good job.

God made each of us. He made some of us white, some of us dark skinned and the rest of us various shades in between. With God it makes no difference what color he chose to colored us. I don't think our height, our width, nor any other physical characteristics he has given us is a big deal to God. God looks deeper than the color of our skin or any of our other physical traits. He looks far inside of us, all the way into our souls, and he sees the real person that he created.

The wonderful thing about God is that his love for us is not determined by any of our physical characteristics. He loves us all the same. He loves a heavy person just as much as he loves a thin person, the poor as much as the rich, the black as much as the white. As we age, becoming more forgetful, weaker, more stooped, more wrinkled, and slower, God's love for us remains the same as it did when we were young and more physically appealing.

Unfortunately, we sometimes use a different criterion to judge others. Appearance is given too much importance in determining the worth of a person. Someone will decide, “I don’t think I like you because you are too red, too green, have too many toes or have some other characteristic that makes you different from me.” Where did we get the idea that if a person is not like us we can’t love them? We didn’t get that idea from God. God said that we must love everyone, even our enemies. Our appearance is the way it is because God determined long before we were born what we would be like. Each of us were uniquely planned, designed and created by God.

The Bible tells us that one day after we die, God is going to give us another body. It will be a perfect body. That is exciting! I wonder if we will look the same way we look now? Think about that! If we are given perfect bodies will it really matter what we look like?  One last thing to think about as we consider racial issues --are we to assume that we will be the same color in heaven that we are here on earth? I wonder what color I will be in heaven. Maybe everyone will be the same color. When God gives us our new bodies he may just reach in his crayon box, pull out a color at random and color us with that crayon. And he will say, “I really like that!”
You know, I think maybe bright fire engine red is a good color for me.