God is the fountain of living waters from which we are to drink and be refreshed. To often we are like the people of Judah who dug cisterns to try to sustain them instead of looking to God. The water from cisterns dug by the hands of man does not give life. It may temporarily quench our thirst, but is lacking the life giving substance of the water that flows forth from God. The cisterns leak and get stagnate and contaminated. Religion is a cistern dug by man that does not give life. Man's ideas and fleshly attempts to satisfy his needs is a broken cistern. The ways of this world are broken cisterns.
Father forgive us for the times we have dug cisterns with our own hands. Forgive us for failing to come to You and drink of the water of life that flows forth from You. Forgive us for the times we have tried to offer that water to those around us instead of Your life giving water. Cause us to come daily to drink from You the fountain of living waters.
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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