Jeremiah 2:13 –Make God is our guaranteed source in life

In their disloyalty, God’s people in Israel and Judah did two evils. Jeremiah 2:14 said they forsook God, the source of living water, and  made for themselves a broken cistern that could not hold any water.

Living in a dry and arid desert where water is a rare commodity, no one who has found a spring that gives an endless supply of water would depart from it. God was to the people of Israel and Judah that spring of endless stream of water. Yet the people of Israel and Judah chose to depart from Him. To God, this was their first evil. Their second evil according to Him was their folly of building for themselves a cracked and leaky cistern that could not constantly supply them with the water they need. Here the issue is about trusting God absolutely. They chose the trust worthless idols instead of the LORD, the true and living God. It was not as if they had not known that. All their lives at every juncture, when they faced uncertainty and challenges, God was their constant defender. There was not a time He did not come to their rescue when needed. Yet now in their needs, to turn away from Him and trust other useless gods was wickedness at its worst. If leaving God was stupid, trusting powerless and worthless idols was even more stupid.  

No wonder in Jeremiah 2:12, God called on the heavens to witness how appallingly foolish His people could be. The impending disaster would be shuddering to think about. Why was trusting idols more appealing to those people of God? Here’s one obvious reason. The tendency of fallen people is to live by sight and not by faith. It seems easier to trust something what one can see than someone whom their eyes cannot see. The lesson for us is founding Hebrews 11:6: Without faith, it is impossible to please Him.  We must trust Him and believe that He is able and willing to see us through no matter how tough our circumstances in life may be. Never pivot to trust our own strength when has been our ever-available resource in life. Remember Philippians 4:19, “God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”