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Jeremiah 2:13 Devotion

Jeanne Allen

Jeremiah 2:13 ““For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

 

As I was reading Jeremiah 2:13 and seeing the two degrees of sin, I thought about how God provided for Israelites to leave Egypt with the ninth plague pushing Pharoh to his breaking point, how God provided for their miraculous escape across the Red Sea, how He provided food and water in the desert, how He provided for victory upon victory for them to take the promised land. All of this HE DID. They were the beneficiaries of His love, power, might, and wisdom. This was the God of the chosen people; the God who called Himself the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the same way I might say I am Jeanne of the Allens – I am joined and belong to Allen family. That is the God they walked away from. Instead of choosing to continue with the life that their supernatural God provided, they chose to find “life” in the natural creations of this world, broken things of this world that cannot possibly satisfy.

 

Then it occurred to me that nothing has changed, “there is nothing new under the sun” as King Solomon said. Even now with Jesus’ death and Christ taking up residence in the believer, the sin in our members still reaches up, grasping to take control of our lives and destiny.

 

After the Galatian church was formed, they headed in the same direction. Paul admonishes them in Galatians 3:3 “Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?” We are given this amazing gift that is not anything we could possibly get on our own. There’s nothing we can do to deserve it, to work for it or to earn it. It is the free gift of God as Ephesians 2:9 says. And yet, what only God can do, we seem to always want take over and finish. We are under the delusion that somehow we can do it better, we can get it right. In our earnestness to follow the Lord, we are committing another version of these two degrees of sin: we are forsaking Jesus who lives in us by taking control and seating ourselves on the throne of our lives, the throne that was only designed for Him to occupy; and we are trying to accomplish this with the very things He created.

 

How crazy is that? Until I realize with complete and humbling embarrassment that I do the same thing!

 

Romans 8:1-4 rings triumphantly for those who are walking with Jesus as savior and Lord, providing our anxious yet earnest hearts with this beautiful truth. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

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