Scripture gives us wonderful give-and-take pictures because God is eager to assistance us empathise His truths.
For example:
"My people convey committed 2 sins: They convey forsaken me, the boundary of living water, in addition to convey dug their ain cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot concur water."
Jeremiah 2:13
Unbelievers may waste materials their fourth dimension on worthless purposes, in addition to that’s evil.
But when God’s people create the same, nosotros commit 2 evils.
We waste materials our fourth dimension on worthless purposes, in addition to nosotros forsake God-given purposes:
"For nosotros are God's handiwork, created inwards Christ Jesus to create expert works, which God prepared inwards advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10
Instead of enjoying fresh, pure H2O from a spring, nosotros ready leaky cisterns where H2O stagnates.
Both necessitate endeavor – fetching living H2O from the boundary or edifice cisterns. But the cisterns necessitate to a greater extent than in addition to offering less.
Let’s enquire God to present us areas of our lives where nosotros mightiness move pursuing worthless things in addition to missing His purposes.
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A expert supplemental reading for this devotion:
Lies Some Christians Believe: God Sees All Sins the Same.
