STOP FIXING THE CISTERNS & RETURN TO THE FOUNTAIN

Sometimes I see the world as a broken place and I keep wanting to fix it, because it makes me sad.  Sometimes I see the Church as a broken place and I keep wanting to fix it, because it makes me sad.  It seems that we are living in the consequences of former mistakes and misbehavior and most people don’t see that, so that makes me sad.  We are the cause of many of our problems.  We have forsaken God and continue to build cisterns of our own design; cisterns that are broken and cannot hold water, and can’t keep from breaking even after they have been fixed.

The answer is not to keep building our cisterns but to realize we have forsaken God, the fountain of living waters, and repent of that great evil.  The answer is to restore our relationship with God; then He will redeem us and bring us back to the fountain.  He is not committed to repairing our broken cisterns.

We get into trouble spiritually, mentally, and physically when we forsake or disobey God; when we don’t understand God, or even know God.  We try to make Him human, created in our own image.  He IS NOT!  We come up with our ways of doing things thinking they are in accordance with His ways.  They ARE NOT!  We act in haste to fix the present crisis but don’t wait and ponder His eternal plan.  We continue to fix the cisterns, only to have them break again, and again, and again.