ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DAY
CLEAN CISTERNS
When I visited Israel, the leader of our tour group focused on cisterns. Before the tour was over, it had become a joke. "What cisterns are we going to see today?"
We understood the importance of the cisterns since Israel has a long dry season and has relatively few natural springs. The builders in our group were particularly interested in the construction of these cisterns. They knew unless they were built correctly, they would not hold water, especially clean, pure water which was so important to Israel's livelihood. Jeremiah recognized the importance of the cisterns and the need to keep the water pure. He knew a broken cistern that held dirty or impure water was detrimental to God's people. He saw water as being the spiritual element within man's life and our bodies as the cistern that contained it. If the body which was the container of the spirit was not pure and solidly built and maintained, the spirit (water) would be unclean.
Jeremiah 2:13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken the fountain of living water and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that hold no water." (NRSV)
…..Ivie Bozeman (ivie@rose.net) Eternal_Ink (eternal_ink@associate.com) by way of “Christian Voices” (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)
We understood the importance of the cisterns since Israel has a long dry season and has relatively few natural springs. The builders in our group were particularly interested in the construction of these cisterns. They knew unless they were built correctly, they would not hold water, especially clean, pure water which was so important to Israel's livelihood. Jeremiah recognized the importance of the cisterns and the need to keep the water pure. He knew a broken cistern that held dirty or impure water was detrimental to God's people. He saw water as being the spiritual element within man's life and our bodies as the cistern that contained it. If the body which was the container of the spirit was not pure and solidly built and maintained, the spirit (water) would be unclean.
Jeremiah 2:13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken the fountain of living water and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that hold no water." (NRSV)
…..Ivie Bozeman (ivie@rose.net) Eternal_Ink (eternal_ink@associate.com) by way of “Christian Voices” (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)
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