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Date Posted: 16:51:08 12/30/12 Sun
EMPTY VESSELS
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.
The analogy presented to us in Jeremiah is one of a cistern that leaks and will not hold water. It matters not at the labor that it took to dig the cistern it can never hold water. Either it is cracked or the ground is porous to the point the water leaks out soon after it flows in from the infreqent rain. In the analogy it is contrasted with a fountain of fresh "living" water that satisfies and refreshes completely. Water in the Bible many times is representative of the Spirit of God and it is so here in Jeremiah.
The accusation from God is that Israel had forsaken the plentiful clean and refreshing water that comes from a bountiful fountain and have dug cisterns that won't even hold water when it comes to it in plentiful amounts. They were trusting in their own reservoirs for their needs when God had already supplied to their needs.bountifully.
The lesson for is simple. God has made the "living water" (John 4:12) available to all who will come and drink yet we reject this living water which is the Holy Spirit freely given to all who will come and we make our own gods which can never satisfy. When Israel came out of Egypt they fashioned the golden calf to worship while the "real McCoy" was on the mountain within their sight with Moses.
Man has always tried to fashion his own religion to get around bowing to God. He will reject the pure for the impure and abominable. One should think for a moment at the quality of water that came from a cistern that would hold water. The water came from rain run off. In the cities it came from roofs and streets that were contaminated. Water was infrequent in the summer months and the pollution would build until the rains came and washed it into a cistern. In the streets was animal waste that could find it's way into the cistern in the run off. The water in the cistern was polluted as was any thing received from man made worship. (Acts 15:20).
Any spirit received from false worship would be the unclean spirits from the devil.
Whether it was Israel rejecting the Spirit of God or the worldly man today rejecting the offer of the "well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14) the result is the same."Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his."
THERE IS A RIVER
There is a river, and it flows from deep within
There is a fountain, that frees the soul from sin
Come to this water; there is a vast supply
There is a river, that never shall run dry
There was a thirsty woman,
She was drawing from a well
See her life was ruined and wasted
And her soul was bound for hell
Oh but then she met the master
And he told about her sin
And he said "if you drink this water,
You'll never thirst again.
There is a river, and it flows from deep within
There is a fountain, that frees the soul from sin
Come to this water; there is a vast supply
There is a river, that never shall run dry
Knows all your guilty stand
Knows all your guilty stand
Come to this water; there is a vast supply
There is a river, that never shall run dry
There is a river, that never shall run dry
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