"We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives....You know for yourselves that we're not much to look at." 2 Cor 4:7-8
In recent years there have been a plethora of extreme makeover type shows on tv where people, unhappy with their appearance, have all sorts of plastic surgery and so on in order to look more beautiful.
Sometimes, when a person has a birth defect or has been burnt, this sort of treatment is totally acceptable. But on these makeover shows all too often the people are relatively average/normal. They tend to have incredibly low self esteem as a result of taunting in their life, often by family, or are just worn down by the suffocating culture of 'beauty is important' so prevalent in the western world.
Paul, we suspect, was no oil painting. Far from it. And in 2 Cor he says "we're not much to look at". Yet Paul has gone down in history as one of the world's most important people. He recognised that he had to be an 'unadorned clay pot' so as to not get in the way of God's incomparable power.
It's all about God, not us. We don't need to have an extreme makeover to be successful for God, or to be beautiful in his eyes.
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