“God is a dyer. Like the good dyes – they’re called genuine – become one with the materials they permeate. So it is with those who were dyed by God. Because God gives their own colors to the dyes – the colors of immortality – and thus we are baptized by God in water.” (The Gospel of Philip v. 43)
This metaphor of being dyed by the colors of God paints a picture of being immersed in the essence of God and transformed from the inside out. What we were before is forgotten now that we wear God’s beautiful colors of immortality.
Our beauty is God’s beauty. Our radiance is God’s. Our diversity is a testimony to God’s multiplicity because we are not all the same color. God is not monochromatic. God is pure light, but when refracted through a prism, each color is revealed across the vast spectrum and frequency.
Our differences do not divide us from God or from one another. In each of us is a unique expression of the Divine light. Whether purple or blue, yellow or red, black or brown, we are all gloriously reflecting the wavelength of God as an expression of vibrant color.
We are all genuinely dyed in the hues and shades of God’s love, and we have become one with the essence of the Divine. Our colors are God’s colors. Every color is beautiful and every color is essential.
In the same way that a teabag immersed in water transforms the liquid into something new, we are baptized into God’s nature and changed forever into completely unique expressions of the Divine light vibrating at the frequency of love.
Show your colors proudly today and every day. Celebrate your shades and hues. Radiate your vibrant wavelength of God so that everyone can see it clearly.
You are an essential color in the Divine spectrum of Holy light.
Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast Radio with George Noory, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.”He co-hosts The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast and his solo podcast, Second Cup With Keith which are both available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Podbean or wherever you find great podcasts.