Choosing Broken Cisterns Over The Fountain of Living Waters
Some choices are just beyond belief. They show how human beings lack intelligence and wisdom, when they try to live life their own way. Would you choose to dig a cistern to hold water, when you already have a fountain that never runs dry? That would be a terrible choice. However, the people of God made an even worse choice than that. They dug broken cisterns that would not even hold water, instead of having the Fountain of Living Waters.(Jeremiah 2:13) Let's not rush to judgment, until we make sure we don't do the same thing today.
As Christians, we have all of the resources of God at our disposal, if we will simply trust Him and follow His way. That is what Jesus told the woman at the well in John 4. Whoever drinks from the Living Water never thirsts again, because God satisfies us with all we need abundantly. However, we can forsake God and His living water to build broken cisterns. We can decide to trust in other things to meet our needs, instead of trusting God. Then, we have committed two evils. We have made a doubly bad decision. If we try to trust in money, people, our job, power, recreation, drugs, or anything else to meet any of our needs, we are building broken cisterns. It might work for a while, but soon all of the stale water seeps out of that cistern, and we are left dry. Often, then we stop to ask God why He has chosen to stop blessing us. Well, He did not choose to stop, we chose to stop trusting Him, and we chose to trust in something that would never satisfy.
If you can relate to this picture, you ought to stop, repent and turn to God now. He is the Fountain that never will run dry, but He never forces Himself on anyone. The choice is yours.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Jeremiah 4-6.
As Christians, we have all of the resources of God at our disposal, if we will simply trust Him and follow His way. That is what Jesus told the woman at the well in John 4. Whoever drinks from the Living Water never thirsts again, because God satisfies us with all we need abundantly. However, we can forsake God and His living water to build broken cisterns. We can decide to trust in other things to meet our needs, instead of trusting God. Then, we have committed two evils. We have made a doubly bad decision. If we try to trust in money, people, our job, power, recreation, drugs, or anything else to meet any of our needs, we are building broken cisterns. It might work for a while, but soon all of the stale water seeps out of that cistern, and we are left dry. Often, then we stop to ask God why He has chosen to stop blessing us. Well, He did not choose to stop, we chose to stop trusting Him, and we chose to trust in something that would never satisfy.
If you can relate to this picture, you ought to stop, repent and turn to God now. He is the Fountain that never will run dry, but He never forces Himself on anyone. The choice is yours.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Jeremiah 4-6.