Scripture:
"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)
This morning my wife and I were talking about "water", of all things, and it occurred to me how we recognize the need to drink water so that we do not dehydrate but we neglect hydrating our spiritual lives with the living water that Jesus offers to us. (John 4:9-15)
In today's scripture, Jeremiah says that his people have committed two sins, the first being that they have forsaken God, who is the spring of living water by not coming to and depending on God. They have also done something else, they have tried to do things by themselves by "digging" or making their own cisterns to hold "water" but they did not do that right either and their cisterns cannot hold water.
The analogy for me is that not only do we need to come to God and drink from His living water, but we need to stop thinking that we know how to direct our lives because all we are really able to do is create cisterns that can't hold His water.
Request:
That only God would direct our lives and that the Holy Spirit would teach us how to walk in His ways.
Prayer:
Dear God, We are only yours. Forgive us for thinking that we can do anything with our lives and teach us to submit to you so that you can make cisterns that can hold water, out of our lives.
In Jesus' name. Amen
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2 comments:
Amen! I have always loved the account of the Samaritan woman at the well because you can read in the account how she grows from going after her own water to trusting God for the "living water." Would that we responded in similar fashion!
Amen to you both! I have always been fascinated by the image Jesus to describe this living water He would love to bless us: "well up inside" of us.
Lord, may it be so in our lives!
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