Where do you keep your treasures? Is there a special drawer, box, closet, perhaps a safe that you place your treasures Dear Reader? What do you consider a treasure, worthy of the special care you give it, storing it away for safe keeping? Consider the vulnerability of your treasure. Is it subject to theft, breakage, rust, tarnishing, wasting, rotting, disintegrating over time despite your efforts to protect and preserve it? 2 Corinthians 4:7-9 "But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."
The imagery in the verses above is stunning. We are like fragile jars of clay with the all-surpassing power of God inside of us. Our treasure is HIM. Allow me to point out something that is quite breathtaking. He loves you and I so much that He is willing to reside in us, take up residence in these clay jars that we call bodies. Let me point out an obvious fact here Dear Reader. Trouble will come into your life. It has before and it will again or perhaps, I need not say this at all because you are currently living a troubled life? Do you feel crushed, abandoned, destroyed? Are you despairing? When you are pressed on every side, perplexed, persecuted and feel struck down, do you stay there? What do you do with what happens to you and all around you? Are you shattered? You are a treasure to God. God formed and shaped you from the clay of the earth. He breathed His life into you and He will never leave you nor forsake you. It is you, Dear Reader, that He loves and it is to Him that He wants you to turn when trouble comes your way. If you wonder about others, how they manage to remain hopeful, joyful, faithful when circumstances and situations would suggest that they react otherwise, ask them these questions: What sustains you? How are you being who you are given what you are currently facing? Don't be surprised at their answer. Listen and learn from them because the information may save you from much unnecessary heartache and pain. You are Gods treasure, is He yours? Trust Him today and you too will have all-surpassing power, the power of God residing in you, sweet little clay jar.
The imagery in the verses above is stunning. We are like fragile jars of clay with the all-surpassing power of God inside of us. Our treasure is HIM. Allow me to point out something that is quite breathtaking. He loves you and I so much that He is willing to reside in us, take up residence in these clay jars that we call bodies. Let me point out an obvious fact here Dear Reader. Trouble will come into your life. It has before and it will again or perhaps, I need not say this at all because you are currently living a troubled life? Do you feel crushed, abandoned, destroyed? Are you despairing? When you are pressed on every side, perplexed, persecuted and feel struck down, do you stay there? What do you do with what happens to you and all around you? Are you shattered? You are a treasure to God. God formed and shaped you from the clay of the earth. He breathed His life into you and He will never leave you nor forsake you. It is you, Dear Reader, that He loves and it is to Him that He wants you to turn when trouble comes your way. If you wonder about others, how they manage to remain hopeful, joyful, faithful when circumstances and situations would suggest that they react otherwise, ask them these questions: What sustains you? How are you being who you are given what you are currently facing? Don't be surprised at their answer. Listen and learn from them because the information may save you from much unnecessary heartache and pain. You are Gods treasure, is He yours? Trust Him today and you too will have all-surpassing power, the power of God residing in you, sweet little clay jar.
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