God of the Beautiful

"You make everything glorious - so what does that make me?" Everything Glorious by David Crowder Band

God is the creator of everything - from the sunset to the night sky. He arranged the stars so that we could see constellations, and he set up the color spectrum so that when we look to the west around 6-7 PM we'd see amazing colors. Anytime you've looked at anyone or anything and was blown away by the beauty, you have God to thank - either directly or indirectly.

However, if you read Ecclesiastes 3, it says that "God makes everything beautiful"[emphasis mine] - note the word 'everything'. That doesn't mean everything but this one thing or this one situation. And it certainly doesn't mean everyone but you. It includes you - whether or not you believe it, whether or not the world sees it, you are beautiful. It also means that your life, your circumstances, even your mistakes are made beautiful by God.

That is one of the main ideas that keeps me going. All the stuff I've gone through in life, all the pain and all the times I've failed, God can (and will) take it ALL and make it beautiful. 50 years down the road, I'm going to be able to look back at my first 18 years of existence, and marvel at what God's done with my life. And He can do the same for you.