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God uses the most precious natural resource any nation in
the Middle East had at that time (pure flowing water) to describe how Judah had
come to rely on themselves and not
on Him:
“My people have done two
evils: They have turned away from Me, the spring of living water. And they have dug their own cisterns,
which are broken wells that cannot hold water.”
They were trying
to supplement a natural water supply
– a fresh flowing spring – with a cracked, muddy cistern, which was trying to
capture vainly what the world
has. I’d taken notes from somewhere and
written here that, “We’ve knelt at the cisterns of skill, self, etc, rather
than at the spring of Jesus Christ.” As a result, they’d once again allowed themselves to become enslaved. “Haven’t you brought this on yourselves by turning away from the
Lord your God when He was leading you in the right way?”
My commentary said, “The greatest judgment God can send to
disobedient people is to let them have
their own way and reap the sad, painful consequences of their sin… They had
sinful hearts because they had stubborn hearts – hearts that refused to listen to God’s servant and
obey God’s Word.”
Saying “we are free
to wander,” they thought they’d found liberty, even from God, yet in doing so
they’d enslaved themselves to the point of their own destruction.
Father, Satan whispers to all of us, trying to get us to buy
the lie that we do not have liberty
under Your reign in our lives. He tries
to make us feel cheated by You – the One who gives us every blessing if we only
obey. Help me not
to listen to the lies. Expose him for
the cheat that he is. Don’t let me settle for anything less than Your best for me.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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