Dyer's Chamomile

Dyer's chamomile has been traditionally used to make excellent yellow, buff and golden-orange dyes, for the colouring of fabrics. Yellow in scripture is not often used, and it is often in a negative setting, such as the colour of hair around a leprous patch of skin in Leviticus 13, and one of the colours of the avenging angels in Revelation 9. Yet in Psalm 68:13, a rather delightful description is made of God’s people:

Though ye have lain among pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver, and whose feathers are like yellow gold.

We are saved from the effects of the Fall, both physical and angelic, and our faith is more precious than gold -yellowest, richest, deepest gold. You might not have two halfpennies to rub together, but your faith in Jesus is dearer than all the gold ever mined. It is the godless rich who deserve our pity.