Cracked cisterns

Water, the quintessential component of life, is so necessary that without it your body will begin to shut down after only four days. Our bodies are composed of sixty percent of it and every cell in our body needs it to continue the many processes that keep us alive.
 

The earth’s massive oceans comprise over seventy percent of our planet’s surface. They are not only a fertile source for food, our atmosphere’s oxygen supply but also supply fresh water to our villages and communities. God’s hydrological cycle begins by forming clouds through the process of evaporation that eventually and graciously deposit fresh water over the many mountain ranges on our continents.

Our oceans were designed as earth’s buffering system to regulate many complex systems that keep all life flourishing. Unfortunately, the human race has used this precious resource to deposit their waste, allowed overfishing and radioactive material to contaminate them. 

Many concerned scientists, environmental activists and citizens are troubled at the apparent lack of concern among all nations of the world. It is becoming very obvious that our ocean’s delicate balance is being overloaded with pollution and may be reaching the tipping point of no return. 

As the new industrial revolution continues to spiral out of control, the dumping of radioactive waste is being allowed to continue in countries around the world, the consequences will be catastrophic for all life on earth.

While the word picture I have just painted is indeed full of darkness and despair, unlike a Kinkade portrait which is filled with the hope and light, there is yet still hope. The redemption of mankind as well as the earth has already been accomplished and the curtain on the final act is about to go up for the last call.

The nation of Israel, all children from the twelve sons of Jacob, was commanded to worship only the One, True and Living God who is the Fountain of Living Water, the Well with the Holy Name. 

Unfortunately, like all of us, the nation of Israel turned their backs on God and began to worship other contrived gods of heavenly and earthly origins. God’s design, to use Jacob’s children to reveal His plan of salvation to the entire world, was derailed as men allowed greed, power and lust to draw them away to the deception of false gods and idol worship.

“Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid; be very desolate," says the Lord. 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.”

This text, found in Jeremiah chapter two verses twelve and thirteen, lists two destructive acts committed not only by the nation of Israel but all humanity. The world has indeed turned their backs on the source of life and instead dug for themselves cisterns-broken cisterns, which cannot hold water.

Since the very beginning of creation God has promised that it would be Him who would correct the mistakes of mankind. His answer has always been the giving of Himself in the form of the Messiah or Savior to reverse the original generational curse on mankind.

God sent His only begotten Son into the world to purchase mankind out of slavery. How did God accomplish this? God chose to send Himself into our world, to be born of a virgin, live a life free from sin, which then paid the ultimate price to redeem us all.

Jeshua once told a Samaritan women, who was sitting with Him nearby a well, that He was the source of Living Water. If she drank water from Jacob’s well she would thirst again but if she drank from the Well with the Holy Name she would never thirst again and live forever.

As the final curtain is being drawn up, the trumpet sounded and an end comes to the two thousand year old intermission, all who receive God’s free gift of salvation are about to be redeemed and restored. Your destiny, as well as the destiny of all your family and friends, rests solely on the act of asking to receive the Living Water from God’s Fountain.  

However, our lives are like cracked cisterns that cannot hold water as we continue to forsake God and dig cisterns of our own making which cannot hold the Holy Spirit. Today is your divine appointment; do not wait for a human solution by attempting to fill the cracked cistern of your own making. Chose Jesus, the Living Water of life and live forever by coming to the Well with the Holy Name.

“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.”