From Which Shall I Drink?

I have a choice to make every day, even every moment: Will I drink from the Fountain of Living Waters or from broken vessels that can't hold any water?

What do I know about fountains?

• A fountain is fed by a continuous stream of water.
• Its water is doesn't stagnate, because it's always moving.
• The water is fresh and clean and tastes delicious. 
• The water quenches one's thirst.
• It doesn't accumulate nasty critters that the eye can't see. 
• It's beautiful to watch and relaxing to hear.
• It isn't man-made.
• It helps animals, people and plants to grow and thrive.

What do I know about broken cisterns?

• A cistern is sometimes a jar to carry water in. If it's broken, then all the water pours out. 
• Sometimes a cistern is a well dug into the ground to hold water. If it's not filled in well, it'll leak.
• It's like a reservoir with a broken dam.
• It's usually man-made and man-broken, but not always.
• If there is any water, it becomes stagnate and not worth much. It can only grow organisms no one wants in his body.

Today, I've had and will have decisions to make. Will I drink and be satisfied from the Fountain of Living Waters? Or will I lift a broken cup to my mouth to drink, finding nothing or only drops of unclean water? 

Be appalled, O heavens, at this;

be shocked, be utterly desolate,

declares the LORD,

for my people have committed two evils:

they have forsaken me,

the fountain of living waters,

and hewed out cisterns for themselves,

broken cisterns that can hold no water.

(Jeremiah 2:12-13 ESV) 

If God is the Fountain of Living Waters, then as His child, I can drink and drink and drink, being filled up, my soul's thirsts wholly satisfied. 

Not everyone has this opportunity. Some are still slaves to the thirst with only broken containers laying around them.

Mrs. Erven, drink up! Children of God, drink up!