Thought of the Day !!

for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:13 (NRSV)

In Jeremiah's day the people of God had abandoned Him (the fountain of living water) and created cracked cisterns.

What does this mean? Cisterns are artificial reservoirs for storing water. In the time of Jeremiah it would be rainwater. Water is needed to sustain life. So what God is saying here is that the people created other ways of sustaining themselves and giving themselves meaning and purpose. In essence they found other ways of salvation. They created their own ways instead of relying on and trusting in Him (the fountain of living water that never runs dry) to sustain them.

The people in Jeremiah's day created cracked cisterns that wouldn't sustain them by turning to other gods and worshiping idols. They also found meaning in sexually immoral ways. Today we do the same things. We've turned to the culture and what it teaches us to find our meaning and purpose and joy. But these things will all become empty because they're all cracked cisterns that cannot hold water. The only place where salvation and a true sense of purpose comes from is our God as brought to us through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Make God first and foremost in your life today. Find your meaning and purpose in Him. Don't be swayed by the gods of this world that try to entice you and tempt you away from the ways of the One True God.

In the love of Christ,
greg