In the Hollywood film Pleasantville<\/em>, all the residents of the town are living life in black and white until one day someone discovers the forbidden idea of free choice. Upon making that choice, the main character turns into a vibrant, colorful person while everyone else remains black and white. From there, other citizens of Pleasantville discover free choice, and they too exchange their black-and-white existence for dynamic color.<\/p>\n One message we might take away from this film is that it\u2019s those who choose freely the life of sin and fleshly fulfillment who are living life in color, while all others are doomed to a grayscale existence. This is precisely the view of sin that the enemy would love for us to buy into. Ever found yourself asking, \u201cWhy is the world getting away with murder, while I as a Christian am supposed to live uprightly?\u201d In other words, why does the world get to experience the Technicolor dream life while I\u2019m stuck with this black-and-white existence?<\/p>\n The truth is, that\u2019s backward. We might picture sin dangling in front of our eyes as the most fulfilling thing out there and think it\u2019s our obligation to resist it simply because God says not to partake. But that\u2019s a distorted view of the spiritual reality. The reality is that we are now partakers of God\u2019s divine nature. We\u2019re the ones who can experience life in vibrant, heavenly color.<\/p>\n An unbeliever can only choose one thing\u2014sin. It may be good-looking sin, philanthropic sin, or kind and compassionate sin. But if it\u2019s not an expression of the life of Christ, then it\u2019s still sin. It\u2019s a black-and-white expression of death rather than the life of Christ in dynamic color.<\/p>\n We Christians can also choose sin. But we\u2019ll find, over and over, that it never fulfills. We\u2019re simply not made for it anymore. We\u2019ve been redesigned from the ground up as a people in God\u2019s living color so that we can display and transmit his life in this world.<\/p>\n Life for us is like the film Pleasantville but rewritten, redirected. God has the market cornered on fulfillment. As his children, we\u2019re the only ones who can live the Technicolor dream. Interestingly, not only do we look different, apparently we even smell different:<\/p>\n For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. (2 Cor. 2:15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n (from the bestselling book, \u201cGod Without Religion\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the Hollywood film Pleasantville, all the residents of the town are living life in black and white until one day someone discovers the forbidden idea of free choice. Upon making that choice, the main character turns into a vibrant, colorful person while everyone else remains black and white. From there, other citizens of Pleasantville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n