⁷ But we have this treasure in jars of clayto show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed,but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

If self-reliance is the factor to our success, God’s glory would be diminished, having to share precious space with our lesser glory. As what Murray Brett writes, ” The price of God’s glory shining in our lives is brokenness.

A man who is broken in Spirit cannot be stopped. What else can stop him, He is already broken before Christ.