If your airline serves the islands of the Caribbean, consider scheduling a trip or pass ride there. And if you enjoy watersports, it might give you the opportunity to beautifully learn a truth about God.
While snorkeling or scuba diving in the Caribbean Sea you will see fish swim by in a stunning variety of colors. If all the fish were black, or white, or gray the experience would be so greatly diminished in pleasure. But the Divine Artist sees fit to use all the colors of the palette when He creates, and that is true for His greatest creation as well as fish.
A mayor of New York once described the city as “a gorgeous mosaic,” speaking of both the cultural and racial diversity within its five boroughs. Appreciating this mosaic in a larger sense can make our lives so much richer.
In fact, it is precisely because everyone is not like everyone else that this is so…and that by divine design.
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelation 7:9-10 (ESV)
