“We are but sketches of what one day,
After the hard lines pass away,
God, the Designer, would have us to be:
Only in charcoal, rude and rough,
The mere cartoons of His greater skill.”
We all want to make our lives beautiful. At least, one who has no such desire is not living worthily. We are God’s children, and should live as those who have heaven’s glory in their souls. We have within us immortal possibilities, and he is as one dead who does not strive to realize the beauty that is folded up in his life.
A beautiful life is one that fulfills it mission. “Every man’s life is a plan of God” is a familiar saying. One who attains that for which he was made lives beautifully, however lowly his life may be. Completeness is beauty. The meaning of the root word for “sin” is, missing the mark. The aim is to keep God’s commandments, to do God’s will, to realize God’s purpose. We miss the mark, and the beauty is marred. “Transgression” is a like word, meaning stepping out of the path, over the boundary — that is, not walking as God directs, failing to live according to the Divine plan and pattern. “Iniquity” has also a similar suggestion — unequalness, injustice, not according to the law of right, and therefore unbeautiful.
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