I don't know if you have ever made anything from clay. I did a few basic bowls in school or scouts a long time ago and enjoyed the process of forming the shape, adding the glaze, and firing the piece in a kiln. An interesting thing about clay is that it is most flexible before it is given a shape, but it is most useful for service after it has a shape. Unfortunately, once it has been finished it is most fragile and susceptible to breaking if dropped. So we have a wonderful thing happen when Jesus comes to live in our clay pot. Although we, the clay pots, are still fragile, He brings a remarkable resilience and when our pots are dropped, or kicked, or shaken they are not broken.
Paul says, in 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Forged for service and filled with Christ for durability, the world can see the reality of God in each of our clay pots.
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