As I was reading through the first couple of chapters of Jeremiah this morning, I was struck by the fact that realization that nothing has changed in the heart of man in many thousand years. The same sin, same broken relationship with the Creator is present in today's world as it was in Jeremiah's.
(Jeremiah 2:11)..."but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit...(13) For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
We are a presumptuous lot! We think that we can do things better than God, provide for ourselves without any reference or recognition of where our life comes from or is sustained. The cistern is a metaphor for our much less than perfect presumption. We only think that we have the skill and power to create and maintain that which is necessary to sustain life.
However, our "cisterns" will not even hold water...stale and rancid water, never mind that which is "living!" We have literally exchanged that glory of God which has been offered freely to us, for that which is less than useless...all because we do not want to accept our dependence upon His perfect will and purposes for our lives. Will we ever learn?
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