Broken cisterns

Jer:2:13

For my people have done two evil things

They have abandoned me

The fountain of living water

And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns

That can hold no water at all. 

There might be umpteen number of evil things that you have done. Some say that they are not grossly evil. They say their heart is pure. They have not done any wrong to anyone knowingly. They claim their conscience is clear. They believe they will have a right standing before God because they are not inherently evil people. 

But the evil that God sees are not these puny ones. These are just derivatived of the major evil which started in the garden of Eden. "I will be like God"

The fountain of unending living Easter is infinite, cracked cisterns are even less than finite. The fountain of living water is a source of life in itself. Cracked cisterns are dead to the core. The fountain of living water keeps on flowing from inward. Cracked cisterns keeps leaking outward. 

In resorting to cracked cisterns. I have abandoned my God. I have not loved my God as He has done. I have not been mindful of Him as He has been of me. 

Why do I keep looking for finite sources of joy? Futile sources that will never give everlasting peace? The source of life, Jesus Himself is willing to be the river of life for you, so that this river can flow from you to others to be a blessing for them. But why do you keep going to those cracked cisterns which can hold no water at all? 

These cracked cisterns I need to crush. That is for sure. But if I do this without filling myself with the living water, that will bring in more cracked ones only. May the Lord enable us all.