Cracked cisterns!
(Gleanings from the diary of Ruth Bryan)
November 21st, 1830
While thinking this afternoon of some friends who have been running eagerly from one place to another after a celebrated, and, I suppose, most interesting preacher — this idea forcibly struck me: Why manifest such undue concern after streams, when we have the Fountain always accessible? I can, in my humble cottage, approach the footstool of the Father of mercies, and enjoy the manifestation of His love!
"My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves — cracked cisterns that cannot hold water!" Jeremiah 2:13
(Gleanings from the diary of Ruth Bryan)
November 21st, 1830
While thinking this afternoon of some friends who have been running eagerly from one place to another after a celebrated, and, I suppose, most interesting preacher — this idea forcibly struck me: Why manifest such undue concern after streams, when we have the Fountain always accessible? I can, in my humble cottage, approach the footstool of the Father of mercies, and enjoy the manifestation of His love!
"My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves — cracked cisterns that cannot hold water!" Jeremiah 2:13
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