Red, White, Blue

I usually cannot help it but I like to do a little bit of shopping when I visit the big city. I don’t do it very often and I never buy very much, after all you have to be able to get anything you buy home and as we travel by train and bus there is a limit to what you can take with you. Once when I was a teenager I actually moved from the city to my country town by bus. I cannot even remember how many bags and containers I had packed on that particular trip. I remember my father being amazed at the number of bags that kept coming out of the storage compartment.

Let me go back to my recent trip to Sydney. I managed to buy a new handbag and a carry-on bag for the train. While we were looking around for what might be suitable I saw so many colours, patterns and sizes that it could have made my head spin. I eventually settled on a blue one with bright yellow flowers on it and Australia printed across the bottom of it.

The blue reminds of the deep blue Australian sky, a sky that God put in place with a word. “And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. Genesis 1:6-8

The white reminds me of the purity of His handiwork, there are a number of times when God looks at His creation and sees that it was good.

Of course the red will always remind me of the blood that He shed for His church and me on the cross. “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” Acts 20:28.