When the rainbow appears in the heavens, we see a combination of beautiful colors. We gaze at it until our eyes tire or the spectacle disappears. We would not think to ask which color in the rainbow is best, for all its hues are beautiful.
On earth we also have a rainbow of colors: white, black, red, yellow, brown and mixtures of all these.
The celestial rainbow cannot express itself to us in terms of mentality or morality. It can only display the wonderful spectrum of its shades of color. The earthly rainbow, of which we are all a part, does have the capability of moral expression. Its colors are able to speak for themselves. They have emotions, opinions and prejudices. One color may think of itself as more beautiful than the others, as having greater intelligence, as being superior to other hues.
But it pleased God to create a variety of people and surely we are all the same in the eyes of Him who looks at the heart. Indeed, “The LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart” (I Sam. 16:7).
Where the spiritual mind is developed, men and women must see as the Lord sees. One is not better than the other because of his external appearance, though our human pride and prejudice may tell us otherwise. The only differences that count are those that exist in the heart of each individual of whatever hue.
Where this truth is not understood, the earthly rainbow loses the beauty that the Creator intended. Colors clash and the spectrum is shattered. Differences are emphasized; there is no unifying spirit.
“[Yet] we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God” (I Cor. 2:12). We must discern spiritually, the apostle goes on to say, for we have the mind of Christ.
In this Christ-like frame of mind, spiritual discernment removes the scales from our eyes and we can see the real beauty in God’s creation. The various hues blend lovingly together just as they do in the rainbow we see in the heavens.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One