Beloved Names of God..series "Fountain of Living Waters"

"Fountain of Living Waters"

 

"For my people have committed two evils;

they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,

and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns

that can hold no water."

Jeremiah 2:13 KJV

 

• Name of God the Father
• God is referred to as the "fountain of living waters" twice in the KJV.
• If anyone doubted that one flowed from the other, God describes Himself here and "the fountain of living waters." In the book of John, Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that He is the One from whom she can drink living water (4:10).
• Through Jeremiah, God vents His frustration and amazement that His people have, even after a history of disastrous consequences, once again turned to false gods.

 

Imagine God's frustration when people started turning to man-made gods and idols- again! Everything man-made fails. Even the water-collecting cisterns, hewn from solid rock, would occasionally crack.   

 

Jesus and the Holy Spirit are life-sustaining "waters" that need no cisterns. God is the fountain from which those waters flow. None of them are man-made!

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Next week we look at "Living Stone"