Recently, I have been reading through The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
About three-fifths through the diary, Brainerd wrote something that struck a chord in my heart. He writes, “[I] was afraid I should forsake the fountain of living waters, and attempt to derive satisfaction from broken cisterns.”
How often have I been guilty of this same sin? How many times have I tried to fill a void in my heart or life with something besides Christ. French scientist Blaise Pascal said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. It can only be filled by God.” How many times do we try to fill this vacuum or quench our thirst with something other than God. It is so easy to turn to the temptations of money, power, fame, work, and relationships to find fulfillment.
Drinking from these broken water jars will always leave us thirsting for more . . . and more . . . and more.
But praise God, there is a way to find fulfillment—-lasting, unquenchable fulfillment. No one can sum this up better than Jesus in His conversation with another thirsty woman, the Samaritan lady at the well. “Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:13-14
Take your thirsting heart to Christ, my friend. Once you have tasted the water from the Fountain of Life, the broken jars of the world will never again be appetizing.
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