When you color in a coloring book, every page you turn is a new adventure. It’s a new opportunity and a new challenge. It’s a chance for you to bring the design on the page to life, however you may want to. The design doesn’t change whether you use colored pencils, crayons, or markers, and there is no restriction to what colors you can use. You choose how you want the page to look.
The coloring book is like your relationship with God. God handed you a coloring book and a box of crayons when you were born. The coloring book is your's to draw, color, scribble, doodle, and mess up as you please. God’s plan for you lies in the designs of each page. Like some coloring books, the design looks better with your personal flare. Sometimes, you can’t tell what the design is until you color it in.
The best part about this coloring book is that you never lose it. Regardless if you stop coloring, or you put it away out of sight and out of mind, the designs inside will never change. The pages will still be strung together in a snug binding, and will always hold an opportunity to come back.
Go. Live your life and fill in your coloring book with spontaneous colors. Share pages you are particularly proud of with others. Let the simple thrill of coloring calm you and bring you peace. Be content with the designs that God has given you, but make them as colorful as possible.
So, when God hands you a box of crayons and a coloring book, what will you color?
