Pocket Candy Christianity #RTTBROS #Nightlight
"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." - Jeremiah 2:13, KJV
My poor mom had to raise four boys as a single mother, and there were times we'd be out in public getting a little rowdy when she needed to settle us down. She'd dig through her massive Samsonite sized purse to find some old candy or gum that had settled to the bottom what we called "purse candy." And let me tell you, it tasted quite honestly a lot like... well, purse.
But when you're hungry and that's all that's available, you'll take it. The problem was, that stale pocket candy would ruin our appetite for the good meal waiting at home.
God warns His people about this very thing in Jeremiah. He calls it drinking from broken cisterns instead of coming to the fountain of living water. The danger for believers today is that we'll satiate ourselves with the substandard, stale "purse candy" of this world and miss the spiritual feast God has been inviting us to all along.
We settle for the temporary satisfaction of worldly entertainment, shallow relationships, or material pursuits, things that taste okay in the moment but leave us spiritually malnourished. Meanwhile, God has prepared a banquet table for us. He's offering living water that truly satisfies, bread that actually nourishes our souls.
The broken cisterns of our culture promise refreshment but can't deliver. They're cracked, leaking, leaving us thirstier than when we started. But Jesus said, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37).
Don't fill up on purse candy when the King has invited you to His table.
Prayer: Father, forgive us for settling for the broken cisterns of this world when You've offered us living water. Help us to hunger and thirst for righteousness, to find our satisfaction in You alone. Draw us away from the stale substitutes and to Your abundant feast. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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