Jeremiah was used of the Holt Spirit to paint an image of the tragic result upon a society the rebels against the LORD. The picture is of cisterns that held stagnate, polluted and diseased water in contrast to the fountain of fresh and pure living water (Jeremiah 2:13-14). According to Jehovah, Israel had committed to evils; first, the leaders and people had abandoned the Lord and His Word, and, second, they had been drinking from the stagnate and slimy polluted waters of idolatry. The value of fresh and running water was easily understood by Jeremiah's audience and the illustration was easy to understand; no person in their right mind would drink from a polluted water source when clean and fresh water was available. Yet, this is exactly what Israel had done. Their society was plagued by the spiritual diseases of evil, hatred, abuse, greed, dishonesty and untruth as result of having drunk from the teachings and followed practices of the false religions that replaced the LORD with a god cast in the image of evil man and fashioned according to evil imaginations! Talk about an revealing "selfie"! When error is substituted for truth and the revelation of God disregarded, the outcome is lawlessness and eventual ruin. The principle of the harvest is still in operation; a society harvests the bitter fruits from the seeds of rebellion! God was not mocked 2,500 years ago and He is not mocked today. Our America is in a sad state of disunity, dissension and decline as we teeter on disaster! We have mocked the LORD and dishonored His Name. Today, evil is called good and good called evil. We have lost our moral compass and rejected the North Star of His Truth. We are living in days that also resemble the Days of the Judges, and the phrase, "every man did that which was right in his own eyes", is descriptive of our time. We are destroying the moral foundation of Truth upon which law, justice, honor, respect and responsibility has had a stable footing! These qualities of a blessed society have been replaced by a society poisoned by the false philosophy of the "self-esteem" charlatans who declare every individual as are the center of the universe and has a right to act like spoiled and selfish child. According to these foolish sages, we do not need redemption because we are all good and nothing is wrong in the core of the person; The Bible declares otherwise! Too harsh an indictment? Have you watched the news or read the headlines lately? Where is justice? Why are the words like "responsibility" and "accountability" absent from the national narrative? The truth is we refuse to point our fingers at ourselves and confess the real problem in the soul of this nation. The problem is not the economy; the problem is not the available of guns; the problem is not the high cost of tuition! The problem is we have abandoned the Truth of Truth! We have abandoned the one source of absolute truth who puts all persons on an even playing field and held accountable by consequences; there is God and He has spoken! When a society assumes the posture that it is the master of its own fate, there will be a collision with rocky shores of truth of God's judgement. Sound the collision alarms there is a reality check happening in America today! The only hope for America is a spiritual awakening and a return to the LORD OF BIBLE and that will never happen until the church has a Holy Spirit anointed revival in America. Only then will the Living waters flow and nourish the sickened soul of America back to health!
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