“My people have
committed two sins: They have forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have
dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
EXPLANATION
These are the words of
The Lord God which were spoken to the prophet Jeremiah to be proclaimed to the
people of Judah. Jeremiah told the
people that The Lord God said that He remembered the devotion of their youth
when they followed Him through the wilderness. (Jeremiah 2:2) He questioned them as to what fault they
found in Him that caused them to stray from Him and turn to worthless idols.
(Jeremiah 2:5-8) Because of their sins,
The Lord God was going to punish them, their children, and their children’s
children. (Jeremiah 2:9) He said that
they brought this upon themselves by forsaking Him. (Jeremiah 2:17 and 2:19) He told them that they turned their backs on
Him and worshiped idols made of wood and stone, but every time that they got
into trouble, they would call on Him and say, “Come and save us.” (Jeremiah
2:27)
APPLICATION
Today, most of us do
not worship idol gods. We sin by
forsaking The Lord God and by putting other things ahead of Him. We offer many different excuses for the
things that we place ahead of God. Because
of these things, we don’t pray as we should, praise Him as we should, or worship
as we should. Some of the time we turn
to sinful wickedness, and other times we just backslide. (Jeremiah 2:19) We need to turn away from whatever it is that
causes us to forsake The Lord God and return to Him. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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