We recently went to a pottery shop that had the most beautiful vases of every size (some huge!), some glazed with the deepest peacock blues with green undertones, others vibrant reds and yellows and some earthen and natural, like hewn stone. But over in the corner, beside the artisan working at the wheel, was a small pile of broken jars. Some were glazed already and the heat of the kiln had broken them. Some appeared to have been dropped before glazing, as they laid there raw, never seeing their full beauty or potential. All I could see was humanity…
“We now have this Light shining in our hearts (the saving love of God), but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great Treasure. This makes it clear that this power is from God and not from ourselves.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)
If this life has felt like a lot of outward beauty on display, but a hollowness inside us cries to be filled, it’s because our lives were meant to be filled by the same Artisan that crafted us together in the first place. He desires to “Fill us and complete us in Himself.” (Ephesians 1:23)
WHEN we have received Christ as Lord and Savior over our lives, our clay jars take on a strength only given by God… “We are pressed on every side with troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. We are hunted down but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9)
Friends, we are made by God, to be filled by God, to live eternally in His presence where there is “fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.” Make sure today that He is Lord of your life, for eternal life.
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