Earthen Vessel

"Though we are new creatures in Christ, we still live in the framework of ordinary human lives." Heavenly treasure in earthen vessels...

He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust -Psalm 103:14

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens -2 Corinthians 5:1

Christ is to dwell within and find His expression not through my subjugation and disappearance--but through my redeemed humanity. In me there is an incorruptible weight of glory.. that is housed in a temporal creation... a seed in a pot, which will eventually be transplanted to its home in the restored Eden.

For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing -2 Corinthians 2:15

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

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies -Romans 8:22-23