"Choose Life"

Jeremiah 2 v 13

""For My people have committed two evils:

They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,

And hewn themselves cisterns - broken cisterns that can hold no water.""

Wow! Do we choose the wisdom of the world over the Living Waters?

Do we replace service for Lord over worshipping and relationship

with Him?

While looking up cisterns - I found this:

Fountain; literally, tank or reservoir. Such reservoirs were "dug in the ground (see on Jeremiah 6:7), and chiefly intended for storing living waters, i.e. those of springs and rivulets" (Payne Smith)

A cistern, by its very nature, will only hold a limited amount, and the water "collected from clay roofs or from marly soil, has the color of weak soapsuds, the taste of the earth or the stable." Who would prefer such an impure supply to the sweet, wholesome water of a fountain? But these cisterns cannot even be depended upon for this poor, turbid drink. They are "broken," like so many even of the best rock-hewn cisterns (Thomson, 'The Land and the Book,' p. 287).

John 7 v 37, 38

"On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying,

"If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink."

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.""

Today and the rest of our lives let us choose the Living Waters. We choose a 

relationship. In a relationship we don't just read about the person or just listen

to teachings about the person, we intimately get to know them. He loves us 

soooooooooo much.