"For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves"
II Corinthians 4:6-7
We are His earthen vessels, emptied as a result of the broken places in our lives... but through His mercy we are filled with His love, His beauty, and His glory...
And through the cracks and broken places in our lives His light shines forth, His power is revealed, His glory is made known, until we are transformed into the same image... and out of our belly flows rivers of living water...
"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."
II Corinthians 3:18