The Many Colors of God
Have you ever had a friend that you thought you knew pretty well, when all of the sudden you learned something fascinating about them that you never knew? It’s like going over to a friend’s house and seeing a remarkable painting on the wall. “Where did you get this?” you ask. “Oh, I painted that,” she replies, to which you realize that your friend loves to paint and you simply never knew it. So your friend shows you more of her work, and its fantastic, and you feel as if you’ve been let in on a sacred and beautiful part of your friend’s heart. You know her better because of it, and you admire her deeper. That’s how I felt about God when I started to befriend Africans. God is too wonderfully complex and beautiful to be expressed in any one color or culture. So he creatively put a piece of his heart into every tribe, people, nation, and culture. The diversity of nations and races paints a larger picture of the character of God, and knowing a race or culture different from your own