Dependent on God

In our nation today, there is a cry on one side for independence from the intrusiveness of government. Others promote interdependence while still others call for total dependence. Each side positions itself; spouting the advantages of their position while postulating the disadvantages of the others. What results is the visceral and vitriolic war of words between pundits. As Americans we cherish our independence. Yet God wants us to be dependent upon Him. Too often we find that we are straining and yearning for independence when what is needed is dependency; to be specific dependency on God and not upon human governments or ideologies. Churches become stagnant pools of religious activity and proclivities that suit more the whims of those attending than that which God desires. The air becomes stale; filled with the redundancies of religious rhetoric rather than the Spirit’s movement in their midst. God used Isaiah and Jeremiah to speak to the nation of Israel about these issues. Can it be that we are seeking to displace our dependence upon God with independence or interdependence? Are we forsaking the Fountain of Living Waters for the stale waters of leaking cisterns? It’s Food for thought. 

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.

Jeremiah 2:13