Life is like a Rubik’s Cube

Since I was little I have enjoyed in a very special way all types of riddles and puzzles. The Rubik's Cube is no an exception. However, even being aware of its existence (I mean who does not know the best-selling toy of all time ?!) I did not own my first Rubik's Cube, A.k.A the king of mind challenges, until I was 12 years old. It’s funny how well I remember it as if it were yesterday: my first Christmas as a High School freshman.

As many of you may know, the popularity of this device is not proportional to the ease of solving it. That is, it being well known does not make it easy. But today I have not come to talk to you about whether it costs a lot or not to solve the Cube. Today I come to tell you about the desktop background of my computer that has accompanied me throughout my years at university. “What? This entire introduction for nothing?” is what you might be saying.  Of course not! It is obvious that my desktop background would have a Rubik's Cubes. Furthermore, for some, this specific background image may even seem familiar because it is the one that comes up when you do an internet search for ‘magic cubes’.

The very image that I am speaking of consists of a set of cubes accompanied by the phrase “Life is like Rubik’s Cubes”. If you take a closer look, something that I shamingly admit I did only after having this image as my wallpaper for several years, you will see that the cubes are growing in size from left to right. And if you look a little better closer, as the cube increase in size, more parts of the puzzle are solved.

What is this image trying to depict? Like the cubes, as we grow in size (mature in age so to speak) we also grow closer and closer to becoming “solved”. Our lives advance. This progress is not only limited to physically development. It also fosters personal individual growth. The beauty of all this is not only the Life vs. Rubik's Cube comparison, which I have to say I love, but also how it can be perfectly understood and applicable the following way: I, as a person who solves a Rubik's Cube, am the “Creator” of a complete cube, fixed, perfect in my eyes. We are or can be Rubik's Cubes molded by the hands of God. If we accept God as our Savior we stop being an unresolved Rubik's Cube on the shelf collecting dust, and we start to belong to a creator who will gradually shape us, move our pieces into place. And although on occasions we may not understand, God will end up solving us and in turn we will be able to live the lives the way we were created to do so.

I encourage you to let yourself be molded by the hands of God. Trust that He is the one who knows how to best to solve the Rubik's Cube that is your life.

“Yet you, Lord, are our Father.
  We are the clay, you are the potter;
  we are all the work of your hand.” - Isaiah 64:8 NIV

Nathan Cook

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