{"id":2133,"date":"2012-07-27T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:21:07","slug":"like-fragile-clay-jars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Like Fragile Clay Jars"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFor God, who said, \u201cLet there be light in the darkness,\u201d has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.\u00a0We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.<br \/>\nWe are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.\u00a0We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.\u201d \u2013 2 Corinthians 4:6-9 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>As at the dawn of creation where God first brought light to the darkness (Genesis 1:3), so also He brings His divine radiance and strength to our fragile hearts through the life and teachings of Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Such a wondrous imbuing not only serves to grant us comfort and peace in times of trial, but makes any efforts to share His gifts more clearly of heavenly inspiration.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor God, who said, \u201cLet there be light in the darkness,\u201d has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.\u00a0We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[1444,2475,2906,3194,2903,2904,2902,586,966,2907,269,1922,2905],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-2-corinthians","tag-christ-jesus","tag-comfort-and-peace","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-dawn-of-creation","tag-divine-radiance","tag-fragile-clay-jars","tag-genesis","tag-god","tag-heavenly-inspiration","tag-jesus","tag-pauls-second-epistle-to-the-corinthians","tag-teachings-of-christ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-yp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}