God is the Fountain of Living Waters

"Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods?  But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.  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 hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water." Jeremiah 2:11-13

A pastor recently told about his experience in witnessing people who once came regularly to church who suddenly never showed up again.  There were the people who desired to attend another church which the pastor had no problem with.  But there were the people who seemed blown about, not knowing what they wanted.  That made me wonder if they were seeking satisfaction in anything other than the Lord Himself.  They could be those who sat in church week after week, were offered Christ again and again, but who ultimately rejected Him and looked elsewhere. What a sad thing that would be because God is the fountain of living waters.  There is nothing else and no one else that can satisfy our empty and weary souls.  And it is a great evil to forsake the Lord and seek to substitute Him with something else.  The substitutes hold no water.  But the Lord delivers on His promises.

"Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy?  Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.  Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you and everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David."

Jesus, the Son of God, says to the woman of Samaria at the well (which applies to everyone),

"Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.  The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (Jn 4:13-14).

Our gracious God offers to you a relationship with Himself that comes by faith in Jesus.  Apart from Christ we are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph 2:1) and are under the wrath of God (Jn 3:36).  But those that believe on Christ have His righteousness imputed to them and are justified in the sight of God on account of Christ's righteousness.  This is a gift of God through the redemption of Christ "whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith" (Rom 3:21-26).  Do you trust in Christ alone for salvation?  If so you can sing with David

"You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore" (Ps 16:11).