Newsletter

June 2005

Chairman’s Chatter

In 2 Corinthians 4 v 1, 5-11 Paul speaks of treasure and of power - treasure to EXCITE us and power to ENCOURAGE us.

When we became Christians ‘God made His light to shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God’. By letting His light shine in our hearts He has revealed to us the true person of Jesus Christ. Everyday we carry around in us the light of God which Paul in v7 describes as a treasure. Now that is EXCITING! Do we value our Christian lives as a treasure? Earthly treasure is usually preserved in a container of fitting dignity and beauty but that is not how God stores His treasure. God’s treasure, the glorious light of His gospel, is not kept by Him in gold, glass or fine bone china, but in our frail, weak human bodies which Paul describes as jars of clay. That too is EXCITING!

The reason behind Paul using the contrast of treasure in clay pots is to show that power belongs to God and not to us. ‘We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power from God and not from us’ v 7. Just as God gives us His light, so too He gives us His power. In verses 8 and 9, Paul illustrates this with four examples. In our weakness God’s power is available to us so that despite our experiences and situations we are not crushed or in despair, neither are we abandoned or destroyed. For we carry in us the death and life of Christ, the light and power of God. This is the ENCOURAGE MEN T!

Read these verses for yourselves. The treasure is EXCITING, the power is ENCOURAGING!

God bless you all as we enter our 25th Anniversary Year of CRC.

Alison

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