“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.” ~ Jeremiah 2:13
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We live in very strange times; being a devoted believer has never been more challenging than now. You may say, “Well, there was a time when people were thrown to the lions for their faith, but not any longer (at least, on a large scale). True. However, the enemy has changed strategy; he is giving us options that preoccupy, pacify, and seem to take our eyes away from God.
God brought a charge against the nation of Israel. These were a people He chose, delivered by Himself, and brought into a good land. God was amazed that Israel soon forgot Him and His mighty deeds amongst them and substituted Him for the Baal of the Canaanites. Their religious leaders no longer sought God; they defiled the land with their sin and chased after frivolities.
God accused Israel of two evils: They forsook God, the fountain of living waters, and they hewn broken cisterns for themselves (they abandoned a fountain and got a broken water tank). God was the forsaken fountain, forsaken to pursue other gods and worldly pleasures. God rebuked Israel to her shame that she should look at Cyprus and Kedar and consider that they never did such a thing. He said, “Has a nation changed its gods, which are not gods?” Why Israel, why?
Satan’s game plan today is to draw our hearts away from God subtly. He rarely comes with any great or blatant affront to our faith, and neither does he present us with scenarios that demand we deny Christ or die; no, he is more subtle. He knows many of us will not deny our Lord, but we can pursue a little pleasure, seek a little convenience, ignore God a little, and do a little ‘world.’
Do you drink from your fountain, or have you dug out broken cisterns for yourself? Is your life a mobile altar of thanksgiving to God for the ‘good land’ He brought you into, or are you chasing after frivolities? God, the forsaken fountain, is calling you and me back to Himself today: “Return to Me. The broken cisterns you go to for comfort cannot hold enough water to satisfy your true thirst. I am the fountain of living waters; whoever drinks from me will never thirst again.”
To be continued…
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ADDITIONAL TEXTS:
Psalm 36:8-9, John 4:13-14, and Hosea 2:7
PRAYER:
+ Father, deliver my heart from affections that draw it away from You.
+ Open my eyes to cisterns that I have dug that have replaced You, the fountain of life.
+ I refuse to forsake my fountain henceforth. Lord, draw my heart back to You, in Jesus’ name.
