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Jeremiah chapter 2 verses 11 through 13

has a nation changed its gods even though they are no gods but my people have exchanged their

glory for that which does not profit. Be appalled oh heavens at this be shocked be utterly desolate declares the Lord be

appalled, O 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 hued out cisterns for themselves, broken

cisterns that can hold no water. These are three of the most powerful indicting, convicting verses in the book of

Jeremiah and really in all of the Bible as God looks at his people

who had turned aside from him and from all of his goodness and his grace and the glory he had given them.

My people have exchanged their glory.

And what do they exchange it for?

For that which doesn't profit. They exchanged relationship with the one true God for the

worship of all kinds of false gods who are no gods. In verse 13 the way it puts this picture, listen to this

language they have committed two evils. One they've forsaken me the fountain of living water. They've turned aside from

the fountain of living water and they've built cisterns for themselves that can hold no water.

It can makes no sense.

And yet this is what the people of God had done.

And it's what you and I are tempted to do every day, today,

to turn aside from the fountain of living water to the satisfaction and security and comfort and

strength and hope and truth and joy and life. and the things of this world, the possessions of this world, the pursuits of this world, the

pleasures of this world looking to this world for security, satisfaction, hope, joy, life, and Jeremiah 2, 11 through 13 is telling us today.

Don't do it.

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