What Color Is A Yield Sign?

Note the title of this blog and answer the question: What color is a yield sign? Depending on your age, you will probably give one of two answers. Answer the question in your mind before you keep reading to see if you get it right.

Ready?

A yield sign is red and white. If your answer was yellow, you are revealing something about your age. Yield signs haven't been yellow since 1971. If you doubt me on this, google "yield sign colors" and see for yourself.

As many yield signs as I've seen over the past decades, I still would have bet they are yellow today. The reason is because they were yellow for nearly twenty years and that's when I learned what a yield sign is. It is a strange fact that once we've learned something and become used to it being that way, it is very hard to change our perception. That's true even when evidence to the contrary is right under our nose.

What many of us have done in our perception of the color of yield signs, we've done with our perspective on the Christian life. We have held faulty beliefs about God, about ourselves, about the Christian life and many other aspects of our faith. Then when we are confronted with the truths related to the grace walk, we still can't seem to shake our old faulty belief system. It's not easy to realize that what we've thought was sacred doctrine was really nothing more than sacred cows.

Are you willing to have your mind be changed? Just because we've believed something for a long time or, for that matter, even until now doesn't mean that we're correct. May the Holy Spirit open our eyes to see the truth and be set free from old ways of thinking and believing that are inconsistent with what really is true.

Note: If you live outside the U.S. the color of the signs may be different. For instance, some of the yield signs in Canada are still yellow, but in the U.S. law required the change in the early 70s so you haven't seen a yellow sign since then. As you drive in the days ahead, take notice and you'll see.