Spend time in prayer and silence with God asking Him to meet with you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
“Cross over to the coasts of Kittim and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this: Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the Lord. “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 2:10-13
Devotion
All the prophets used pictures, metaphors and living illustrations to declare their God-given messages. Jeremiah is particularly vivid in the way he depicted God’s Word. In ancient Israel, the people dug large holes in the ground to capture and retain water. In the dry seasons, the cisterns might crack causing them to lose water. God’s people were turning to false Gods and to other nations for help in overcoming their problems. They had exchanged God for idols that were not gods at all. In doing so, they were relying on broken cisterns that could hold no water. At the same time they were failing to rely on God who is a spring of living water (a spring that perpetually bubbles up from the ground with a never ending supply of clean fresh water).
The Big Question
Every one of us is prone to seek our fulfillment in finances, status, education, success, athletics, promotions, health, beauty or relationships. Yet nothing on this earth can satisfy the deepest longings of our soul. God has made us in His image, to know and to relate to Him, regardless of our status or lot in life. Therefore, filling the God-shaped hole with some earthly shaped ambition or person, will never satisfy us. What broken cisterns are you digging in your life? In what ways are you trusting in the gods of this world and forsaking the One True God who made you in His own image?
Conclude your time in prayer and silence reflecting on what God revealed to you today.