Have you ever crawled through a wilderness, chained by the weight of the past? Have you ever been thirsty for something more than this menial existence has provided? Do the wounds from your journey throb with each tedious step that you take?
Jeremiah 2:13 says,” My people have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
There is a spring of living water found in Jesus Christ. In Him you will find all that you’ve ever longed for. In Him the aching in your heart will be stilled, and you will know the fulfillment of your dreams. Yet, how often do we turn to dig our own cisterns with the belief that they will quench our thirst, heal our scars, and fill our emptiness.
Perhaps it’s the cistern of money, offering security and pleasure. Or maybe you’ve dug a reservoir within yourself, meant to hold knowledge and independence. Still, there is the constant lure to hewn for sufficiency in the strength of others. These are all splintered promises and cracked dreams, holding only a façade of joy.
Nevertheless, we toil without ceasing, trying to keep the walls from crashing in around us. We lie awake at night, disappointed and broken; wondering what went wrong. While we strive and struggle, the spring of hope continues its peaceful surge, waiting for us to come and drink.
So, here before you stands a choice. Which will you choose: life or death, fulfillment or emptiness? A shattered vessel will never fill the longing of your heart, but the sweet taste of the Savior’s love will quench your thirst forever.
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians records the gospel as it was preached by the early church. Some estimates have placed this creed to 6 A.D., the year that Christ is thought to have been crucified. This is the same gospel that Christians today profess belief in.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
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