But even then, says Paul, we get up again. The resurrection power of God is at work to raise the believer to his feet again. We do not quit. We are not destroyed. All is not lost.
Christians are very ordinary clay pots.
We are fragile, temporary, functional, ordinary. But such pots were made to contain a great treasure-the life of God himself. He is beautiful beyond description, and powerful beyond measure. The surpassing greatness of the power is of God, and we find that our lives have a quality that is unexplained. The surpassing greatness of the power of God does its work.