I have this small bottle of computer screen cleaner. I've had it for years.
A lot of years actually...
Now the strange thing about this is, it always feels empty. Yet when I use it to clean the face-shield on my helmet I always get enough to clean it. Each time I think that's the last time I'll use it.
Then I use it again, and again.
Like I said, it's strange.
We can often feel like that bottle, empty. When we are left to our own strength, we are.
But it is at those times we realize that we are, in fact, still standing. It is at those times we can recognize that a strength, not from ourselves, keeps us moving on and being useful.
"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body." 2 Cor 4:7-11 (NIV)
