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.
Jeremiah 2:13 (KJV)
Jesus said that rivers of living water would flow out of the lives of those who believe in Him. His living water would brim over from the well-spring of the spirit within us, quenching our thirst and touching the parched lives of those around us. The life of the Lord Jesus is a constantly flowing stream, a river even, keeping us flesh, filled, and satisfied.
We stop the flow, however, when we try to reservoir God's sring of living water in our lives. We become cistern holding tank for past victories or other people idea. At that point, we have forsaken the spri g of living water. We have tried to store that which cannot be saved, we tried to keep flowing. The result? Our lives lack freshness and freedom, and we become stagnant pool reflecting old experiences and tired testimonies.
God says that these cistern of our own making will break. What we try to save, we will lose. The warming is clear: Throw out the broken cisterns and get in the flow of God's spring of living water.
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