In the land of Hyrule, commercial banks must be in short supply… that’s the only logical reason I can come up with that explains why everyone keeps all of their life’s savings stashed in pots around their house. But if I’m being honest, I’m glad that they chose such a strange way to store their valuables… the rupees and other objects these breakable containers held were incredibly critical to Link’s mission to save their kingdom. It may seem unkind and maybe even a little but unnecessary for me to advance in my quest by breaking, slashing, and smashing these vessels to find the treasure they contained inside, but that’s the only way their true value was revealed as they played their part to help Link on his way.

Just as the clay pots in the Legend of Zelda had to be broken before they revealed the treasures concealed within, we are all fragile beings made from dust… human “jars of clay” designed to be broken and poured out for the benefit of others during their times of need. The life experiences that left us “broken” were not caused by our loving Father, but when we place them into His hands He will use these moments of brokenness to serve a higher purpose. Let’s be the extension of Christ’s nail-scarred hands for others today… the hidden treasure contained within our pain is exactly what someone else desperately needs.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

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