The Color of White

In "The Hunger Games" the soldiers of the ruling class wore white. In many places white was the color of the good guy. The bad guy always wore black. Remember Darth Vader in "Star Wars"? He wore black. I think that the "Games" movie was trying to say that the ruling class saw themselves as the civilizers, the ones who were keeping order amongst a rabble of lesser beings. They thought that they knew how things should be. If the masses were free to do whatever they wanted to do, it would be chaos. Freedom was not for all.

In Jesus day, I suspect that the Romans thought they were wearing the white hats when they got rid of him on the cross. It was a cruel, but necessary punishment to keep the peace. They did not know that he was "The King of Peace." In the Transfiguration on the mountain, he was the one in white. When he rose from the dead, he is pictured in white. His kingdom was not of this kind of "Hunger Games" world. But he did leave us with something that would connect us with his kingdom: Love one another. Love, even from your cross.