TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS

TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS

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

In the mid-20th century, the Government of Thailand in Bangkok wanted
to build a highway through a village. This highway would pass through
a Buddhist monastery with a little chapel housing the heavy 11 feet
tall clay statue of Buddha. They decided to relocate
the chapel and its statue. They moved all these one after the other
with a crane. At the turn of the heavy clay statue, the clay began to
break apart and crumble as they lowered it into its new location.
Despite their careful handling, the clay fell off completely. The
workers were amazed at what was revealed: the statue was pure gold
underneath the clay.
Before this revelation, the people estimated the worth of the statue
at about fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). Today, as a result of this
revelation, it is worth millions of dollars and has since become a
major world tourist attraction.
2 Cor. 4:16-18. "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward
man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light
affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things
which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal." Like the Buddha statue went
through some little rough handling which brought about the revelation
of the glory of its underneath content, God is working out something
to bring about the revelation of the non-perishable treasures in us.
Whatsoever we go through that seems to be tearing us through is not
without the knowledge of God. He is using whatever we go through to
prepare us for the revelation of HIS TREASURES IN US.
Everyone who is looking at the clay that houses us will not place much
value on us untill the revelation of the unseen, eternal weighty
treasure in us. When we go through fire that is not meant to consume
us, but will only refine us, we come forth as gold. Then, we become
the rare commodity that the world is yearning for and can pay any
prize to enjoy what is revealed in us. In Job 23:10, Job in his trial
declared: "when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." We must
be willing for God to conclude us through the best means he chooses
for the revelation of the excellency of the glory of his treasures
buried in us.
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