Broken Cisterns

Tonight I know that God is who He says He is (Exodus 3:14) and He deserves that title, he has earned that title, that position (Obadiah 3-4). I need to constantly remind myself that I live for Him, and to bring HIM glory is greater than anything else. I don’t want to trade that approval of God for the approval of man (Jeremiah 2:11). I don’t want to chase after a worthless idol, by making the opinion of man more than the opinion of my God and what He not only thinks about me but says about me. I know that the Lord is Living Water (John 4:10), and when I choose a worthless idol rather than Him I am creating for myself a small, limited and broken “cistern” (Jeremiah 2:13) that I am trying to fill in order to be refreshed…but from the very beginning I am setting myself up for failure. The cistern that I have “created” (my cistern of approval for instance) is already broken to start with, and the pieces would never fit together right to hold my “water” (refreshment, approval)….and the second issue is that I am trying to fill my cistern with “stale” water instead of God’s living water. I am trying to cling to broken promises of others, the need of approval from others, or the desire of respect from others……and yet all along MY GOD promises to constantly refresh me with Himself, the living water………

....and in knowing all of this I can begin to truly know who I am.....because when I start by defining myself, by knowing WHO defines me (Christ)...then I am being refreshed from the Living Water who never fails rather than thinking I am defined by the stale water and broken promises of others in my life.....

.....I am defined by CHRIST.....and I will no longer drink from the stale water of a broken cistern I have created but will be truly refreshed by the Living Water of the one who created me..........