What Well Do You Drink From?

Today we read Jeremiah 1-2 and John 10.

I don't understand it.  I provide good, fresh water but they keep going back to the dirty water.  I have two dogs: a three month old miniature schnauzer and a three year old Heinz 57 hound walk-up.   Whoo (pronounced Who) spends most of the day outside chasing squirrels and keeping us safe from birds,  mail carriers, delivery dudes, and sanitation workers.  Deacon is young and indoors most of the time. Weighing in at four lbs. we are just trying to keep him safe from himself and our feet.   There is a bowl of clean water inside for them to share and a bowl of the same outside right at the back door.  It is watched carefully and replenished when needed and refreshed more often than that.  However, there is a container in the backyard that collects rain water.   It is a seldom used toy of my daughter that has naturally become a rain water collector.  If I don't empty it, it will become a place of stagnate water, a den of mosquitoes and whatever else water can bring us. It will also become a huge water bowl for my dog.  Thankfully the youngest is too small to see it yet.  The other, sometimes, gets her a lick or two out of it.

The question is: Why?  Fresh water at the back door or stale water in a manmade puddle in the yard.
It would seem obvious, yet, I will hear a lapping in the backyard from time to time.   That is hard to understand.  The Lord has that kind of frustration with us.  He talks about it in Jeremiah 2.15-
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.

Christ Jesus gives us the everlasting well of fresh, new life to enjoy, to celebrate, to honor, and cherish.  Yet, too often we go back to our ways of living instead of his.  Too often, we do it our way when His way is so much cleaner, fresher, and better. 

Let's don't drink from our own empty, waste water resources. Let's depend upon Him daily for all we need through His Word, prayer, and obedience.  

Have a great and refreshing day!