We had a dog walk up a couple of years ago and claim us. She is an outside dog and loves the yard. She comes in at night and sleeps in a kennel in the house. She appreciates the break from 'working' in the yard, but she loves her yard. We keep a bowl of fresh water outside and try to make sure that there is plenty in it and that it is clean. However, there is a container in the backyard that holds water when it rains. It is not clean and is not intended to hold water but it does and when it does, she will drink it. Its crazy ain't it! She has fresh water at her disposal and she will leave it to go drink stagnant, unclean water. It may sound crazy but God says that we do the same thing too often:
Jeremiah 2.13- 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. (www.lifejournal.cc)
Fresh, flowing, refreshing, clean water available to us but too often neglected. God's very best is His Direction, His Guidance, His Cleansing, and His Refreshing Blessing upon our lives. However, we get so caught up in our schedule and our world, we leave this cleansing blessing for the mud puddles of the world's options. Besides the world's offerings being stagnant and dead, it also is full of leaks.
Nothing the world offers nor nothing that you try to dig out for yourself in this life will ever hold water. Don't try it your way or the world's way. Do it God's way today-- you will find it refreshing!!
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