Are You a Borken Cistern?

Good morning to all on this Thursday morning. God is truly in His Heaven and all is right with the world! Waine and I were in Phoenix for a 4 day weekend with Mackenzie and Brooks and their family. We were able to frolic with these two wonderful in the pool at the hotel; watch Brooks in his baseball game; go to Mackenzie's orchestra concert (she plays the violin) and was able to help Jillian hang pictures in her office. We will be headed to Kai and Hailee's house this weekend and I can't wait for my hugs and kisses! ET is still on this side of Jordan; continue to lift him and his family up in prayer. He no longer can tolerate his chemotherapy because he has liver failure, however, however the last time I looked God was still in the healing business and I firmly believe this is ET's "Friday" but Sunday is just down the road. Please continue to lift JKS up in your prayers and pray for her healing.

I am continuing my journey in Jeremiah 2 verses 13-19, "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken Me, the Spring of Living Water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder? Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted. Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skull. Have you not brought this on yourselves by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way? Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates? Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of Me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty. Amen and amen!

Two Sins; two behaviors that can alienate us from the Love of God because God cannot exist anywhere there is sin! The first sin is to make our 'own selves' to be God. When we deny the Deity of God and then place our own thinking and planning in the place that God should dwell we are trying to drink from broken cisterns. Instead of taking in the Fresh Living Water that is available through God, we start believing our own press and begin to think like Eve "that we will not surely die if we disobey God". The first and greatest commandment, according to Jesus the Christ, is that we love the Lord our God with all of our hearts and minds. The second is like unto it, that we love one another like we love our selves. When we look up from which all of our sustenance is received, we will not be distracted by the waves of this life that can rock us to and fro.  The Deity of God, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit is essential to my faith. I was dismayed to learn that Thomas Jefferson re-wrote the entire Bible taking out all annotations that point to the Deity of the Trinity. What would motivate a man to specifically get into Satan's camp--Satan's mission is to have us believe that God is not the Supreme Diet so that he, satan, can be worshipped. I think this is what is meant when God told Jeremiah that the Israelites would rather draw water from broken cisterns rather than drink from the Spring of Living Water.

There have been many Great Men--Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, Gandhi, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King. They were born of women, lived their lives and then they died.  Jesus was born of a woman, walked among us, died on a Cross for our sins and then, and then, and then He arose!! Satan would have you forget that there is a comma behind the statement that Christ died. Those that believe that are truly drinking from broken cistern. We are to provide the Light of Kingdom building for this depressed generation!

Have a blessed day. Now may the LORD bless you and keep you; may the LORD make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; may the LORD turn His face toward you and give you peace.

Stephanie