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Friday, August 5, 2005

"Living Water"

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water" (Jeremiah 2:13).

We have been having some really hot weather. Last evening we went swimming at a pool over at a friend's house. My, was that sure refreshing!  My friend shared that they also had a farm pond that they could swim in, as well as one other potential swimming source if any one is interested. With a twinkle in his eye he told me about the holding tank for his hogs. This is the collection tank for the waste of some 2,000 growing pigs!

Well, I sure wouldn't have any interest in that swimming hole! He went on to tell me that as a teacher he had often used this as an illustration with young people in regard to their life choices. No one ever chose the manure pit from his illustration but sadly so many essentially choose it in life.

The daily text is the very first Biblical reference to "living water". Jesus would later use this phrase concerning Himself with the woman at the well in John 4.

Jeremiah lived during a time of great national apostasy and sought to call the people to repentance. In the daily text God declares, "My people have committed two sins."

1) "They have forsaken me, the spring of living water." Living water is a wonderful descriptive phrase concerning the spiritual life God desires to impart to His people. Jesus said in John 7:38 "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." Yet then, as now, so many have forsaken the Lord and this source of living water, the only source of truly abundant life.

2) "And have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."  God desires to supply living water but man seeks substitutes. "They seek life and pleasure in the idolatrous things of the world, things that have no real or lasting value." (Full Life Study Bible note)

Today I encourage each reader to turn to the Lord and partake of the living water from the Lord!


Be encouraged today,
 
 
Stephen C. Weber

Brooksyne's note: The second summer after we moved to Lancaster County we had a very serious drought.  What a sad sight it was to see the water that usually flowed in abundance come to a standstill.  The creeks became stagnant and filled with a putrid smell. Some of the river streams became dried up earth.   It was not a pretty sight in comparison to the usual fast flowing current of fresh water often teeming with wildlife.

"Lord, you know the longings of my heart. When I seek thrills and quick fixes to satisfy these needs I am eventually disappointed.   Your supply of Living Water never runs dry and satisfies the inner desires of my heart because You are the only One who can meet my spiritual needs.  Lord, as I come today dry and thirsty I look to You, for You satisfy the thirsty and fill the hungry with good things." 

Earlier this week I placed up a webpage concerning our travel last weekend to northern PA.

Here is the webpage for our recent trip to New England.

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