Verse Thoughts - Jeremiah 2:13

"For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
- Jeremiah 2:13

Jesus offers us living water, as we see in his conversation with the woman at the well "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." (John 4:13-14) and also at the feast declared "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" (John 7:37-38).
So what are broken cisterns? The things we run to in this world for satisfaction, for happiness, for meaning. When we depend on the creation rather than the Creator. When we seek fulfillment in things like money or food or clothes or games or relationships or status or whatever else it might be. God gave us many good things to enjoy but it becomes a problem when its being elevated above Him, when we are treating said things as if they are a god, when we worship creation instead of the Creator. This is something I admit I struggle with a lot. I often am trying to find all my happiness in many weird things like music and drawing and friends, but I know they only let me down and never really satisfy me, never really quench my thirst, I'm always hungering for more. My great desire is to find my satisfaction and joy in Jesus, and to stop running to the broken cisterns in my life... If you feel the same way, maybe we should all pray and ask God to help us to stop running to broken cisterns and instead to run to Him, Who is our true Living Water.