A BROKEN CISTERN!

Good Morning World!

At 5:30 a.m. this morning I could no longer lay in bed and continue to be restless and thinking about the Lord. And by the way, I don't even know that I was truly sleeping anyways, since I keep popping my eyes open its seems every few minutes. So.... I'm glad that I did not continue to lay there but that I got up and communed with God this morning because that is exactly what He wanted from me and I'm so thankful that He did not give up until I surrendered.

I began reading, crying, praising and praying through Isaiah 58 all the way through to the end and then began again in Jeremiah chapter 2 and have ended this morning with Jeremiah 2:13 that reads:

"For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns that can hold no water."

To me there is so much God is saying in this passage. I don't even know that I can fathom it all, but I did want to write the thoughts in which came to my mind that God was speaking to me about.

One thought that came to my mind was about being a cistern that could hold "The fountain of living waters". When a pot is broken, it cannot hold anything that is liquid. It's going to leak out and there will be nothing to give away or to keep me refreshed or sustained. So the questions, I must ask of the Lord are: What kind of pot or cistern have I been hewing for myself? Am I okay being a broken cistern that can hold no water? I can quickly answer that one, NO, NO, NO, I'm not okay with that! I want to be a cistern that can hold the fountain of living waters that would be glory and honor to my Savior. I do want to be one whom the Lord will look who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at His word.

I believe our world has become so accustomed to being broken cisterns that can hold no living water that we are believing that is okay and acceptable because of the grace of God. I believe God is saying that it is not okay......I did not make you to continue to be living as broken cisterns hewn out from your own making, I made you so that you could hold the fountain of living waters for My glory and My glory alone! I sent my precious son, Jesus to break the chains and bondage of sin, so that you could live as a beautiful, unbroken cistern holding my Son's fountain of living water inside of you to give away and refresh not only yourself but others as well.

Lord my prayer today is that you will repair or even destroy if you have too my cistern. The one that Kathleen has made because her cistern is leaking uncontrollably and is in need of a Master Potter who can mold and shape a new one for His glory alone! Amen.