ALL POWER BELONGS TO GOD

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

If you were offered the option to choose materials for constructing storage jars, clay would not be top of your list. Why? Because it is not the most durable. It may shatter more easily and has no real exterior beauty without effort to enhance it. In fact, many other options are preferable based on their properties.

So anytime I read the verse “we have this treasure in jars of clay” – my attention shifts to the realization that the intelligence to put such treasure in an apparently weak structure was not the doing of man. Yet, we may wonder ‘did God take a risk with that choice?’ Why at all did He choose clay?

The answer lies in the same verse “to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not us”. What we bear in our clay jars are extensions of grace and power proceeding from God because from 1 Peter 5:11, we read ‘For all power belongs to God, now and forever. Amen’

In essence, therefore, there is a God-man partnership; a partnership that has already accounted for the limitations of clay as a storage medium. Hence, the vessel that acknowledges this, is well placed to draw from the God who placed the treasure there. 

#sly