Jeremiah 2

13 “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.

This chapter is filled with God's pain and frustration.  Examples over and over of how frustrated he is with us.  He gives us freedom to choose but almost seems shocked at the choices people made in spite of all he had done for them.  It seems to be compounded by not only do we not engage with him but in fact we do things to replace him. 

It seems really silly when I read what people had done after he has done so much for them--how could their memories be so short.  But then I look at myself and think--but don't I do the same?  He has bless my entire life, yet how often do I just skip through a day without a conversation with Him?  Hopefully I don't go a step further and try to replace Him, but perhaps I do that too.

So steps that I must learn, re-learn and continue to work on my entire life including right now today is to remember all He has done for me.  Talk to him everyday.  If I do this I am unlikely to go a step further and  replace him with my own leaky cistern.

knut