Jeremiah 2:13
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Today’s Bible verse is
Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
13 “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.
Let’s read the verse in context:
Jeremiah 2:1-13 (NIV)
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown. 3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,’” declares the LORD. 4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, all you clans of the house of Israel. 5 This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. 6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and rifts, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’ 7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable. 8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols. 9 “Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the LORD. “And I will bring charges against your children’s children. 10 Cross over to the coasts of Kittim and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols. 12 Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD. 13 “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.
Today’s Quiet Time with God
Today’s verse is a great description of the way we often sin. We have the opportunity to receive living water from the Lord and yet we often choose the stagnant water of our own making. A cistern does not have a natural flow of waster. It is a hole that is dug and then water from somewhere else is brought and poured in to the hole. This water quickly becomes stagnant and full of disease. This is the picture of what it is like when we decide to follow our way instead of the Lord’s. I think it is a good verse to remember when we are thinking about moving in the wrong direction. Why would we drink nasty stagnant water when refreshing living water is available? Take some time today to just be with Jesus and drink the “living water” that He so willingly gives. You will be blessed as you do!
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