In the early days of cancer treatments, my husband was truly faced with the reality of being a fragile clay vessel. How comforting it was to know God stored treasure in this vessel. The life and death and resurrection of His Son Jesus. What an amazing treasure. This is an excerpt from the archieves of those days.
Vessels
We are all vessels and every life experience, trial or triumph, is marked upon our hearts. Whether they be scars or windows to the heart; perhaps they are both. When you look at a scar it tells a story. You know by looking at it that that person experienced something that hurt, but you see that it healed to. It is much like a window into their life experiences. It can be an opportunity even, to share a bit of light in a dark situation. We are compared to clay vessels, fragile and easily broken, but having a light and treasure inside that can shine through those broken places. This is my prayer, that we shine somehow through even the darkest nights and hardest days.
2 Corinthians 4:7-10 ESV
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. [8] We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; [9] persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; [10] always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.”