2 Corinthians 4 – Baked Dirt

Clay jars. They’re common. There’s nothing particularly beautiful or eye-catching about them. They display flaws. They’re fragile. There’s nothing uber special about them. So not exactly where you’d store your most valuable treasures, right?

I love how God uses the ordinary to expose his extraordinary nature. He uses something as simple as a clay jar to remind us that we humans are frail. We are weak. Life can get the best of us. Daily pressures can perplex. Persecution can leave us feeling struck down. Loneliness teases us into thinking we’ve been abandoned. And yet it’s not so! We have this treasure of God himself living in us.

“That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” -2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NLT)

When we focus solely on the frail clay jar we can easily fall into despair, but when we look at the incredible treasure we hold we are renewed!

-Gina G.