Digging Wells

It seems to me that ancient Israel's biggest problem was memory loss. Time after time, they would forget the Source of their blessings. They would get in a bind, the Lord would provided and then they would forget it was by Hus hand that they were blessed. 

They would inevitably begin to think it was by their own hand,their own power or their own ingenuity that they were saved. In the process they doubled their failure: "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" (Jer 2:13).

Isn't that so much like us that we find ourselves facing something overpowering in our lives, which brings us to our knees before God, who hears our prayer and helps us in our time of need. And then, as things settle down, we begin to think we've got this life handled after all. We start to think that we can handle I to our own and begin to forget about God. 

Don't be fooled, don't start down that road of self-assurance, thinking you've got this for "There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death" (Prov 14:12).  The truth is that we are not in controll of our circumstances or of the actions of others. We can plan and begin to do but life can abort our plans and undo our best efforts. 

The simple truth is in good times or bad, we need the Lord, that He is the Source of our blessings, not ourselves: "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows" (Js 1:17).

Jus' Sayn.