Have You Found What You Are Looking For?
Tim Melton
Jeremiah 2:13
Have you found what you are looking for? At first you may wonder what I am really asking. Maybe you have never taken the time to consider what you are looking for. Maybe you would say you have not because life has not yet worked out the way that you want. Maybe you would say that you have, because regardless of material things God had blessed you with the faith, love, relationships, and contentment.
We all are looking for something. Something worth getting out bed for. Something that makes life worth living. Something that we desire or seek more than anything else. We all are seekers.
Everyone is seeking something. Some live their entire lives trying to fill that God-shaped void that we all have in our hearts. We seek to fill it with money, success, respect, freedom, pleasure, and at the end find ourselves emptier than we were when we started.
In the book of Jeremiah, we find an example of this.
''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.'' Jeremiah 2:13
Cisterns were often large holes or storage tanks cut out of limestone rock, either in the ground or in the side of a hill or cliff. It was difficult work. If possible, it would then be lined with plaster to prevent leaking. Even if the cistern was able to hold water, the water collected was the runoff from clay roofs, animal stables, dirty streets, or marly soils filled with remnants of all kinds of undesirable minerals and deposits. If the cistern was broken or cracked it would be even worse. Instead of clouded water, they would find mud instead of water as they sought to quench their thirst.
This was the analogy presented by God through the prophet Jeremiah. God´s people, who had access to all of God´s resources, forsook the natural flowing, spring of God´s living water and turned to manmade, broken cister ...
Tim Melton
Jeremiah 2:13
Have you found what you are looking for? At first you may wonder what I am really asking. Maybe you have never taken the time to consider what you are looking for. Maybe you would say you have not because life has not yet worked out the way that you want. Maybe you would say that you have, because regardless of material things God had blessed you with the faith, love, relationships, and contentment.
We all are looking for something. Something worth getting out bed for. Something that makes life worth living. Something that we desire or seek more than anything else. We all are seekers.
Everyone is seeking something. Some live their entire lives trying to fill that God-shaped void that we all have in our hearts. We seek to fill it with money, success, respect, freedom, pleasure, and at the end find ourselves emptier than we were when we started.
In the book of Jeremiah, we find an example of this.
''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.'' Jeremiah 2:13
Cisterns were often large holes or storage tanks cut out of limestone rock, either in the ground or in the side of a hill or cliff. It was difficult work. If possible, it would then be lined with plaster to prevent leaking. Even if the cistern was able to hold water, the water collected was the runoff from clay roofs, animal stables, dirty streets, or marly soils filled with remnants of all kinds of undesirable minerals and deposits. If the cistern was broken or cracked it would be even worse. Instead of clouded water, they would find mud instead of water as they sought to quench their thirst.
This was the analogy presented by God through the prophet Jeremiah. God´s people, who had access to all of God´s resources, forsook the natural flowing, spring of God´s living water and turned to manmade, broken cister ...
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