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.”
Now there is one thing to which we wish to call the attention of backsliders; and that is, that the Lord never forsook them; but that they forsook Him! The Lord never left them; but they left Him! And this, too, without any cause!
He says, “What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me?”
Is not God the same today as when you came to Him first? Has God changed? Men are apt to think that God has changed; but the fault is with them.
Backslider, I would ask you, “What iniquity is there in God, that you have left Him and gone far from Him?”
You have, He says, hewed out to yourselves broken cisterns that hold no water.
- The world cannot satisfy the new nature.
- No earthly well can satisfy the soul that has become a partaker of the heavenly nature.
- Honor, wealth and the pleasures of this world will not satisfy those who, having tasted the water of life, have gone astray, seeking refreshment at the world’s fountains.
Earthly wells will get dry. They cannot quench spiritual thirst.
Again in the 32nd verse: > “Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet My people have forgotten Me, days without