Chasing Hard

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
(Jeremiah 2:13)

What do you chase after? Being popular? The best athlete? Being a better person, son, daughter, or spouse? Being a better Christian? The perfect relationship?

The truth is we are all searching for something.  The key is what that is. As stated in verse 13, we make our own idols and cisterns to chase after and fill us up. But does that ultimately work?

The answer, through trial and tribulation, is a resounding no! We end up with broken cisterns all around us that leave us more and more empty. We forsake God to fit in or to find temporary satisfaction, leaving us even more thirsty and hungry.

As illustrated in the conversation Jesus had with the woman at the well in the book of John, He is the true source of living water. He alone can fill us up. We must drink from the true source of living water so that our cisterns won’t be broken.

Knowing this, I chase hard after the things that will fill me up. Namely, my relationship with Christ. Nothing else that we do matters. It is important to remember that our lives and what we seek after will ultimately shatter if God is not at the center.

I hope you will become more intentional this week and seek after Him…..