"But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." (James 1:25)

The artist must go out into God's nature to see colors as God made them. Otherwise, his paintings will become murky. As he mixes his colors in the studio, he finally loses the sense of true green, true red, true blue. So he must go out into the open spaces and see the true colors as God made them.

You and I can become morally colorblind. We need the Word to to set us straight, to guide us into noble and God-pleasing living. (From Encyclopedia of Sermon Illustrations, Compiled by David F. Burgess, p. 63)