I have been thinking about that heartbreaking declaration in Jeremiah 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!” [NLT]
I wrote about it in yesterday’s devotion, noting that Christians must cling to two values. One, is that we believe the Bible to be the true word of God no matter how unpopular that view is. Two, is that Jesus ministered and fellowshipped with sinners, and in the end, we are those sinners now saved by grace.
Too often, Christians think that because this country was founded on Christian principles, all its citizens think and act like Christians. Then they are surprised when the world acts not like a Christian but like the world. Why do we expect the world to act like the Church when it is often difficult to get the Church to act like the Church?
Jeremiah’s declaration was not calling out the world for two evil things … it was calling out “my people,” God’s people.
We must be so careful that we do not substitute our ways (cracked cisterns) for His Ways (fountain of living water.) We must hold to the True Word of God no matter how unpopular that view is in our society.
