I am just a "cracked" pot

II Corinthians 4:7

⁷ But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. ¹¹ For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

I am the "cracked" pot-Christ is the power of God in me, that's the treasure.

The power is God's not ours. The power is God's not ours! We are (I am) just a cracked pot a jar of clay, molded and made to hold treasure, the promised Holy Spirit-the power of God.

How does a cracked pot shine? Through the cracks! By afflictions, perplexities, persecutions, brokenness that is how we shine. The world is driven to despair-there is nothing to hope for or to live for-but we who have tresure in jars of clay, die in order to live. We die through afflictions, perplexities, persecutions in order for Christ's life to triumph through us-we have the same trials as everyone else, but as we by faith triumph through them, we also die more to ourselves and live more unto God.

"Brokenness is not weakness, nor does it doom me to a life of uselessness. I am a cracked pot. My head knows that each broken place allows more of Christ’s light to shine into the world if I allow Him to be Lord of the cracks. If I stop trying to conceal them, patch them, cover them over, they can bring glory to God. my heart just struggles with the willingness to surrender."

Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

Shorter Catechism