Quick prelude to this story: I have been studying and reading through the book of Jeremiah (the weeping prophet). This morning I was awakened by 4 or 5 of my housemates talking in a loud voice in the kitchen and their voices just booming down the hallway into my room, so i decided to get up. I went over to my desk to turn on some light music, as i tend to do in the morning just to wake up and relax before i start my day. As i was sitting at my desk, i bent over and accidentally knocked something small into my trash can, this was a bit aggravating for a Sunday morning. I went to reach into my trash and dig around for this small object, only then did I get an impression from the Lord saying: this is what life is like with out Him being the treasure that I would sell everything for just to have Him. Life can be like digging through trash. And the thing is, I knew what was in the trash can, it was my trash and I am the only one who throws things into it. So on one hand I was like, its not that bad but then on the other hand I was like, gross I know whats in there I continued to root through it to find some small little object.
I was quickly reminded of Jer. 2:13 which says “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.
living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that
cannot hold water.
The people of Israel committed 2 sins against the Lord, they turned away from the Lord and 2ndly took pride in themselves and in what they could accomplish. I see myself digging through the “trash” of my life and being prideful in what I accomplish, I am just like Israel. I feel like I can do it on my own instead of turning to the Lord, the living water of life and asking Him for his advice and for Him to lead me on, I get to anxious and don’t want to wait. Lord forgive me for taking my own paths and for building cisterns that hold only dead water, instead of residing in you and drinking deeply from your Living Water. Thank you for your endless grace and mercy.
