We love to garden and take care of birds at our house. We've got lots of rocks to add texture and interest. A number of them I've found in river beds and have been carved out by the currents and now act as birdbaths. They don't hold too much, so we have to keep refilling them....and they were a pain to bring home I might add. I lugged this one out by hand for an hour (it weighs 40 pounds or so).
I like them though, but they are not very effective. Still, I laboured hard to find them and bring them back. The reading in Jeremiah speaks to this;
"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"
What is the prophet talking about here? I don't have a cistern ( I do have a rain barrel). God is telling us that we, who have been made in the image of God, returned the favor and made God look like us. ...and well, that just doesn't hold water. No wonder or lives lack the power of God.
Our sinful bodies and minds cannot hold the Living water without the master well-digger. We left the River of Life and are drinking from polluted little puddles. Why? Our minds, when un-regnerated, crave dirt over clean, old over new, death over life.
Where are you drinking? Are you still thirsty?
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