“Wook, Kaywa!” The little boy’s hands tapped his sheet of coloring paper, as he exclaimed again, “Wook!” I looked down at his sheet of paper, filled with colorful scribbles. “Do you wike my wock?” I smiled as he gestured with his finger to a circle he had drawn on the paper. The circle had been filled in with scribbles of all sorts of colors, red, yellow, green, blue. “I love it! That’s a gorgeous rock!” I exclaimed. He beamed proudly, then pointed to another circle, “And dis wock? Do you wike dis wock, too??” I nodded enthusiastically, assuring him that he did a wonderful job of drawing rocks. No doubt he was already dreaming about his future of becoming a famous rock drawer. He pointed to a third rock he had drawn, “Kaywa! Dis wock, too! You wike dis wock?” Once again, I told him it was a wonderful rock, and I loved the blue he used.
No two of his rocks were the same. Some were outlined, then filled in, some loosely resembled a circle shape, let alone a rock shape. Yet, he was proud of what he had drawn. He created his rocks, and he could see beauty through all those scribbles.
God, on the other hand, didn’t create little scribbles as He created us. He didn’t mess up along the way, and He didn’t make any mistakes. None of us are exactly alike. I can imagine God being proud of how He created us, much like how the little boy was proud of his rock drawings. But, unlike the rock drawing, we weren’t a spur of the moment idea. God had us in mind since before the creation of the world. Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
We are God’s handiwork. We’re His creation. He sees beauty in His creations. Not everyone will appreciate His creations, but that doesn’t mean that His creations are of any less worth because of how other people view them. He put effort and thought in to each of us. That, in itself, gives every single person worth. The next time you feel like a random scribble, remember that you’re God’s valued creation.
Kayla Joy
