Even our Scribbles are Beautiful

As I was scrolling through my Facebook feed the other day, I came across this beautiful video. I'd recommend watching it.

But in case you don't, I'll just give a brief explanation. This video starts out by showing a small child drawing. As is typical with children, the drawing is mostly just a bunch of nonsensical scribbles. But after the small child draws a picture, the mother takes over, and with her paint brushes, turns the scribbles into a beautiful masterpiece. She makes trees of some of the lines, a boat with others, and people with the blobs. What once was a silly black and white doodle is now a watercolor masterpiece. 

As I was watching this video, I couldn't help but make the connection between the mother-child relationship and the relationship between God and His children. Just as the mother and child worked together to make a stunning work of art, so do we with God. 

I think that oftentimes we think that we need God, but that God doesn't need us. While it's true that He is much bigger and powerful than we are, without us, He would not be able to fulfill His purposes of bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. It is through us and our obedience and progress that He is able to increase in glory. Individually, it can be difficult to feel that we are even noteworthy in God's plan, but we are. And He needs us. 

He doesn't need us to be perfect. He is already just that. All He needs is for us to try--to give everything that we have. And then, He can take our efforts, however much of a mess we feel that they may be, and turn them into something beautiful. 

I know that I sometimes look at my life--the canvas that I paint on--and I see a disaster. But He, with His fresh set of eyes that see the full potential in me, can paint on it and make it into something breathtakingly astounding. 

And the most beautiful thing of all is that, to Him, our scribbles are beautiful even before He picks up His brush. 

It is his finishing touch that can transform us, complete us, and make us into something magnificent. And every body's picture, though equally incredible, is uniquely individual. And that's the most beautiful part of it all.