Thirsting for True Satisfaction

 

*Thirsting for True Satisfaction*

*"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."*

~Jer 2:13

So many times, water is used as a symbol of life because water is so essential for life. And the Lord so often takes it from the physical on into the spiritual, and He said, *"I am the water of life. If any man drinks of Me, he will never thirst again."*

Jesus cried to the assembled multitude at the Feast of Tabernacles. *"If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that drinks of the water that I give, out of his belly there will flow rivers of living water"* (John 7:37-38). And the last chapter of the Bible, the last invitation in the Bible, *"And he who thirst, let him come and drink of the water of life freely"* (Rev 22:17).

So God said they forsaken Me, the fountain of living water. The source, the spring from which life comes.

Now carrying it over to the spiritual aspect of it, man basically, instinctively is religious. He's got to believe in something. And when men forsake God, they establish a system of thought, a philosophy, concepts, or whatever that they commit themselves to. They become devoted to, and they have to believe in it, and it requires faith.

So men create their own philosophies, their own rationales for life, and their own cisterns. But the thing is, all of these cisterns, they can't hold water. They leave you thirsty. They will not satisfy you. The end result is emptiness.