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Jeremiah chapter 2, verses 11 through 13.

Has a nation changed its gods, even though there are no gods?

But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Be appalled, oh heavens at this. Be shocked. Be utterly desolate,

declares the Lord. For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living

waters, and hold out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

What an indictment, not just of God's people in Jeremiah Chapter 2, but in our own lives.

Two evils.

One, we forsake God, the fountain of living water. God is the author of life. God is the supremely

good creator who is able to give us everything we need and everything we want in abundance.

He's the fountain of living waters the source of true

satisfaction and yet in our sinfulness we're prone to forsake him and to seek out cisterns

for ourselves broken cisterns that hold no water, that can't satisfy.

We're so foolish. I am, you are, we're so prone to look to the things of this world to satisfy

us, to pursue our own ways to satisfy us, to think that pleasures and possessions

of this world, like that's where satisfaction is found, pursuits and plaudits in this world,

that's where satisfaction is found. God, help us to see their broken systems they don't hold

water. Lord, help us to see the foolishness of our ways.

God, please keep us from sin in these ways.

Please keep us from looking to other things, other people,

for the satisfaction that is only found, only found in you. Lord God, you are the fountain of

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