Good Morning Friends,
“My people have committed two sins: They have
forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
People seek satisfaction from a thousand
different places. They give themselves fully to something hoping that it will
fill up the empty places in their lives. But after the newness of the endeavor
wears thin they recognize that the emptiness is still there.
God compares all of those other things that
people give themselves to “broken cisterns.” They look good in the beginning,
but there are small, sometimes unseen, cracks through which the water seeps
leaving the cisterns empty. All of those other things are man-made and all of
them are ultimately worthless.
Money and sex and drugs and fame and
possessions and the thousand other man-made cisterns leave people empty. There
is only one water source that truly holds water. The Lord Himself is the spring
of living water. He, alone, brings satisfaction and fulfillment. He is the
spring of living water that never runs dry, that constantly and eternally fills
even the deepest thirsts and the deepest empty places of our lives.
Why in the world do we glance longingly at
those other cisterns?
Look instead to Jesus. He is the well of Living
Water that will truly and eternally satisfy!
His, by Grace, Steve
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