“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)
When I was a child there was a huge spring flowing from a hillside about a mile from our house. There was always an abundance of clear, flowing water. It had wonderful water to drink. In our front yard was a cistern. It had been hewn from the ground and the walls plastered with cement. It contained mostly stagnant water. The only water in the cistern had flowed from the metal roof of the house through a down spout. We could take the lid from the cistern and see the eyes of frogs looking back at us. It was not good water. My mother used the cistern water for laundry only.
Jeremiah prophesied in the later days of Judah and into her Babylonian exile in 586 B.C. He had seen Judah’s good days as well as her bad days. Her fall came as a result of what happened in out text. They had forsaken God, the fountain of Living Water and had substituted broken cisterns that could hold no water.
America was founded on Godly principles, where the Bible was revered and God was worshiped. We have made some horrible choices, forsaking the Living Water and choosing to drink from the stagnant cistern water, pretending that it is just as good. But that stagnant water has made our nation very ill. Let us repent and turn back to God.
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