Red is the colour of
passion, blood, lover's roses and berry-flavoured wives. It is
also the colour of danger, revolution and anger. It is a
dramatic colour and not one for the weak spirited.
The
brilliant shades such as vermillion and scarlet have
connotations of being red hot, angry or dangerous and may,
when used in a room, caused the occupants to fel overheated,
irritable and even bad tempered.
It's the
colour that is said to be able to help poor circulation.,
Sitting in a red room or wrapped in a vibrant red blanket will
psychologically make you feel warmer and more secure. Red is
also reported to revitalize someone who feels lethargic and to
improve energy levels.
Red can
also said to be auspicious. Red is also a primary colour and
so one of the three, along with yellow and blue, that stand
alone in their pure state and are not created by mixing or
blending with other pigments.
Red is a
colour often linked with royalty and with overtures of
grandeur. It gives off an aura of warmth and can also imply
richness. The expression getting the 'red carpet treatment'
means that you are treated as a VIP, someone special.
Red brings to mind
bloodshed. Through the pages of the papers each day, one hears
of bloodshed. The first sin of man against man recorded in the
Bible involved bloodshed (Cain killed his own brother Abel).
Bloodshed in the ultimate atrocity men inflict one one
another. As though it was not enough, men has inflicted the
worst bloody atrocity no other men had suffered but on the Son
of God although not knowing that it was God's plan that His
Son was to die that way to suffer for the punishment of their
won sins including the worst sin of bloodshed.
The blood is the
lifeline of all flesh. It affects the vital functions of both
the body, soul and spirit. The body and soul are governed by
man himself. The spirit belongs to God and is His timeless
lifeline of commission with man.
On that decisive day
when man sinned, a barrier stood between the lifelime of God
and man. Without that lifeline man fell into corruption, decay
and death. Sin removed the veil of purity from Adam and Eve's
eyes. They saw their nakedness and covered themselves with fig
leaves. Instead God make coats of skin from a beast He killed
to cover them. In doing so, God creativity employed a visual
aid to illustrate the peril of sin and His divine promise to
cover its corruption from His sight . . . by th shedding of
blood.
The blood was the only
solution to deal with sin and to restore man's communion with
God. However, the blood covering through animals could do very
little to remove the barrier except to temporarily push back
the shadow of sickness and death for all who recognises the
authority of God. Being a loving God, He desired to do more
than simply cover the corruption. God intended, from the
foundation of the world, to break through the barrier of sin
and restore a man tohis rightful place. To do this, God
demanded a sacrificial covering far more potent than the blood
of animals.
A man for a man. Adam's
sin had infected the bloodline of humanity. It takes the blood
of another man with a pure bloodline to be that sacrifice to
redeem man to God. Man's sin also required a death penalty.
Therefore, the substitute must possess the same race
combination of flesh and spirit. Jesus Christ came to earth to
become the sole supplier of what was needed to rescue men from
condemnation once and for all. The healing balm of divine
blood. In doing so, He redeemed us for eternal life though His
death.
