The Truth Behind Autumn Leaf Colors

I REMEMBER A few years ago we were driving down from Boston in the fall of the year. You know, the scene was beautiful. As leaves changed to brown, it was a wonderful fall sight along the Eastern coast. It was magnificent.

People come from all over the country and even around the world to watch the changing of the colors. But a lot of people don’t understand the colors.

They get the colors mixed up. They think the color is changing from green to brown. No, the real color of the leaves is brown, not green. The reason why brown leaves become green is that chlorophyll begins to reproduce on brown leaves during the spring and the summer, turning their natural brown color and camouflaging it so that what you see is green.

But the green looks so impressive you think the green is the real deal, when actually the green is hiding the real deal. The real deal is brown. So in the fall, when the green chlorophyll begins to die, it unveils what’s really there.

A lot of us have covered up the Spirit, so that we don’t see our true colors or our true identity. We walk around projecting a fake identity. Many of us are fake Christians, trying to look like real Christians, when God wants to cut away the fake, so that the real deal shows up.