Fragile? Now that’s not a word most of us want to use when describing ourselves, especially to the world beyond our front door. Fragile is flimsy, breakable, weak. Maybe we don’t all want to be a rough and tumble John Wayne in one of his Westerns, but we also may not want to be what Paul describes us as in 2 Corinthians 4:7, and that’s a fragile clay pot.
Or do we?
I wouldn’t use the word fragile to describe the Jesus I experience. However, I would use the words sensitive and attentive. I’d add caring, available, and maybe even vulnerable. After all, the shortest verse in the Bible is “Jesus wept (John 11:35).”
And if this is Jesus (and this is Jesus), this should be me, too, since I follow Him.
APPLICATION: Uber strong, invincible, hard, ooo-rah, rough, tough, git-r-done…yes, we can put a checkmark in front of some or all of these words to describe us, but for light to come into darkness, let’s be fragile, too. Like the pot, our hearts could and should break sometimes so that light spills and love grows.