There are times we feel stagnant in our spiritual life as if instead of springs of living sweetwater continually refreshing us, we are drinking from cisterns or catch pools. The prophet Jeremiah was constantly trying to bring Israel back to God, chastising them for their idolatrous ways of worshipping false gods. In Jeremiah 2:13 we find these words from God: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns that can hold no water.” Even the limestone the Israelites dug out to catch rainwater had to be waterproofed with plaster so that the water didn’t seep away. There is no replenishing spring in a cistern. Many times they would have to drop in large clods of dirt to take the scum that was building up on the top to the bottom. This water was not fit to drink.
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