“We have this treasure in jars of clay”

Maybe it’s in the cracks, the broken pieces that have been sewn back together that the light shines. That in our weakest moments, in our defeats, in our times of falling, failing in the face of the world, the light of God breaks through and illuminates beyond our fragile shells.

Maybe in the moments when we hurt the most is when we see the most. Because that’s when we see the power that comes from a breath, from a touch, from a loving hand of someone we know, but more powerful than any of this is the whisper on the wind of God’s voice. The gentle nudges or sometimes swift kick in the ass that persuades us on. Even if that means to stop and sit for a while, just to be still.

“We have this treasure” inside us and once we’ve been exposed to it, we are never the same. Once you’ve tasted and allowed that sweet nectar to flow through you, how can you go back to something else? Something that doesn’t satisfy.

In a world where we are taught to find what makes us tick, what makes us happy, what makes us fulfilled, maybe the answer isn’t in the world at all. But inside the whispers of a God who loves. In the ancient words of a manuscript that still resonates beyond any billboard or social media post.

In hope. 

In finding peace in the midst of those moments when it just feels like everything’s a little shaky. 

And sometimes, sitting in the darkness, when it feels like there’s not much light at all, there resonates something bigger. Something that is unexplainable to most, but if you know, you understand how God can reach down… This all powerful being can reach down and hold us in our moments of sorrow.

And maybe the treasure inside is just the fact that we are here. That if you have chosen to follow (God) that you know that there are things that will break us, there are things that will tear at us and things that will try to drag us down paths that lead us to misery, but the treasure is inside. And no one can take that away.

“We have this treasure in jars of clay”.  Inside this tender heart.

~ Peace

The Burtle

“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 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.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬-‭9‬ ‭NIV‬‬