July 14, 2025 … Digging A Selfish Cistern …

July 14, 2025 … Digging A Selfish Cistern …

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Keith and Kristyn Getty  singing… In Christ Alone,  calling all Christians to seek our satisfaction in life thru our relationship with Christ alone..

God's living waters from His living word ... 

Highlight Passage: … Jeremiah 2:13… [NLT] … 

13 “For My people have done two evil things:  They have abandoned Me — the fountain of living water.  And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!  

…  Jeremiah charges that God’s people have turned away from God’s living waters by building cracked cisterns of selfish sin.         

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Jeremiah 2:8-13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God, thru Jeremiah, chastises God’s people for digging cisterns out of seeking for selfish satisfaction.           

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Reference Passage:… Psalms 22:26  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  King David sings of God satisfying the longings of those who praise God and seek after Him.

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru the wisdom of Solomon, calls on His children family to trust in The Lord will ALL their (our) hearts and seek satisfaction only in Him.  

Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Jeremiah shows that God’s mercies never cease providing for those who follow the Lord.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:33 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in His Sermon on the Mount, teaches that only those who live, seeking God’s righteousness, will be satisfied.       

Reference Passage: …  Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth that only those who live to be living sacrifices for God, avoiding the world’s selfish ways, will be gratified.   

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 13:5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Author of Hebrews quotes from Deut. 31: 6, 8, showing that God will never leave or forsake those who rely ONLY on God’s mercy and grace.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Adam R Holz  … AT THIS LINK       … told of how a new puppy, named Winston, would compulsively dig holes in there back yard which was aggrivating to the the ODB author, … until he realized that he - and many people - have the same compulsion to dig for self satisfaction in our lives, ignoring God’s mercy and His sustaining grace.   

God desires that we seek our satisfaction and completion IN HIM … and, as the linked song calls out, … in HIM alone.   So, I’m here, as I am each morning, and as the photo depicts, I seek God’s living waters from His living word.     How about you?   Where will you be digging today?      

My Thanksgiving:… Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for ALWAYS pouring Your living waters into my life thru Your word.   

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for pouring out Your living waters into our lives through Your living word.  … Amen

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