“Contentment makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.” Benjamin Franklin
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13
Many have turned their backs on God. We allow material things to make ourselves feel complete. God offers a contentment that goes beyond human understanding; He shows us contentment wherever we are in this material world. His living water flows through us, we feel complete…. Rich.
On the other hand, how long do our material things satisfy us? We are always looking for something more, and as we gather more, the more incomplete we will feel because we are pouring them into a broken cistern.
The Prophet Jeremiah is telling us not to be slaves to our broken cisterns, but to find the living water that God promised us.
-Taken from a Brett Meador sermon on Oct. 18, 2020.