Pastor's Corner

for Sunday Feb 6th
Come Drink the Living Water
“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) Israel had done two things; they had forsaken God as the source of living water and tried to make their own water. Their apostasy was evident in the way they treated other people, e.g. they had forsaken the poor, the stranger, and the alien; they were following the ways of the world and then going to the temple thinking this made everything alright with them and God (Jeremiah. 7). Thus they had carved out for themselves “cisterns” that drank solely from the culture and not from the “spring” of revelation. God says, these cisterns cannot hold water and will leave them thirsty again. This is a truth that we seem to have trouble believing – that the things of this world cannot satisfy, they will always leave us thirsty. Only God can give us “living water”; only God can give us water whereby we will never thirst again. Why is this true? Why can’t the things of this world satisfy? God tells us the answer, “God…has planted eternity in the human heart.” (Eccl. 3:11) God has planted eternity in our hearts and so only things that are eternal can fill our soul. We were not made for this world but for another world. So, in the words of Jesus, “To all who are thirsty I will give the springs of the water of life without charge! Let the thirsty ones come—anyone who wants to. Let them come and drink the water of life without charge.” (Rev.21:6, 22:17)
Pastor Don