Black and Roiled Waters

At Soccer Camp the other night my buddy Shawn drove his car around the back of the school as the kids were gathered for the Devotional time of Soccer Camp.  He parked his car and said, Hey I need some gas.  Immediately my friend Phil ran up to Shawn's car with a two litre bottle of Coke and proceeded to "fill up" Shawn's car with Coke.  The kids broke forth into uproarious laughter as Shawn, of course, rebuked Phil for being so silly as to fill his car with Coke and said, Hey I said I needed gas!  Phil stopped, shook his head, and ran over to a Gas Can that was sitting beside the school steps and put gas in Shawn's car. 

This was supposed to help the kids see that we just don't work without Jesus.  Cars aren't meant to run on Coke.   Humans only operate properly on God.  I love the way The Amplified Bible words Jeremiah's rebuke to Israel for filling up on Coke. 

¹³ For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

¹⁴ Why have we become captives and prey for evil? ¹⁷ Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God when He led you in the way?  ¹⁸ What have you to gain by allying yourself with Egypt and going her way, to drink the [black and roiled] waters of the Nile? Or what have you to gain in going the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates? 

¹⁹ Your own wickedness shall chasten and correct you, and your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you. Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: [first,] you have forsaken the Lord your God; [second,] you are indifferent to Me and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord of hosts.

I saw a reporter on TV the other day who asked the question, Why has our country become so broken that deranged madmen shoot up innocent victims in a movie theatre?  This is the answer.  We have forsaken the living water of Jesus Christ and have drank the black and roiled waters of sin for so long that our kidneys and brain are shutting down.  We are dying spiritually as a continent.  We need to return to the Fountain of Living Water so that we work properly and live life that Jesus said He came to bring us.  He is the Water our thirsty souls seek.

Nuff Said.