A dozen eggs. The carton is full now. If you’ve followed along, you’ve seen it quietly change — one egg, then two, then three — until today, twelve. Maybe you noticed the count, maybe you didn’t. But here it is, complete. And isn’t that how Jehovah works? What He builds isn’t always loud or obvious — but it is steady, it is sure, and in time, it is whole.

Look closer at the eggs themselves. They appear fragile, as if a careless touch could ruin them. And yet the shell, with its gentle curve, is astonishingly strong. Distribute the weight evenly, and an egg can support books, even bricks. Its strength lies not in hardness but in design — each curve channeling pressure away, each line protecting life within.

Jehovah gives us that same kind of strength. We are not made of steel, unyielding and cold. We are made human, tender, capable of breaking — and yet able to endure when His Spirit flows through us. Paul wrote: “We are pressed in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not downhearted” (2 Corinthians 4:8, NWT). The pressure doesn’t vanish. But the design holds.

Do you see it now?

What looked small,

ordinary,

even forgettable has been extraordinary all along.

From the first egg to the twelfth, from the open carton to the closed — the lesson has been the same. Jehovah designs. Jehovah plans. Jehovah strengthens.

A closed carton.

A closed case.

And in it, a reminder: the strength within us is never our own. It comes from the One who shaped the curve, filled the carton, and will never let it fall. — Psalm 55:22 (NWT)

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