Color has always been associated with things to picture Christmas...I'll take green for the Christmas tree, red for the mistletoe, silver for the bells and white for the snow. But it is because they stand as symbols for the deeper meaning of Christmas that Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if Christmas were without color.
Green is a nice color and it also stands for hope. The people's anticipation of the Redeemer that lasted four hundred years created a sea of hope but the joy that took over when finally the first Christmas day came was three worlds combined.
Red for joy. We all know that the birth of Christ is a red-letter day for all of us. It meant the coming of the Savior, the Redeemer of mankind. Who could've brought us more joy than He? But then, His death was also a red-letter day not in the sense that His death was reason for joy but because His death was meant to be the re-opening of Heaven's Gates to us. Red not for the blood that oozed out from His wounds nor for the flesh which torture and thorns and nails knifed through. He was born on earth to die for us, yes, but red for the triumphant saving of mankind.
Silver for the bells that give us the sounds of Christmas - the distinctive ringing that finds its way into each heart. Funny the way it does but it really seeks a path that won't take No for an answer especially from doors of cold, cold hearts that refuse Christ's love..... hearts that claim they need not the warmth of heavenly love. Silver, too, as the star that brightly shone down on the manger on which He lay - the same silver star that led the Three Wise Men to Him.
White for the snow that makes every tree a leafless one - (almost all though) .......makes them ivory sculptures, without which Christmas kind of seem incomplete. Somehow the bareness of the trees naturally puts across the allusion to the cold that triggers the scene. So the Christ Child lay there cold, yes, and yet it wasn't for the deep December night. It was simply due to the lack of reciprocating warm love that He so yearned for from us. He has given us all His very life. Now, what can we give in return for that much?
Christmas is Christ's birthday.
If we can offer friends brown chocolates or pink roses on their birthdays, why not let us offer Christ a truly white Christmas this year. Not the white of the snow nor the candles we light nor the cards that we send nor the clothes that we wear, but the purity of heart that has banished all the dirt of evil from its every chamber to serve as the whitest, widest, room for the new-born Babe. This is all the magic needed to make Christmas white for Christ. Though humble and unworthy it may seem when warm and stainless from sin and sincerely prepared as a dwelling for Him, the heart is turned into a royal temple fit only for a King. The only thing left then is to invite Him in to give the final color to Christmas - a Christmas not only with all the essence of the rainbow colors of the world - but also most especially with the heavenly grandeur of a whiteness in the form of love for Christ. Just this for really and truly a WHITE CHRISTMAS.
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