living water

jeremiah 2 is the song of a love gone awry, of a covenant reneged. but the sobering lesson is not of losing or keeping one's first love, or even of holding to a pledge, but this:

that we need to believe He is the spring of living water, because the natural thing to do is to dig our own cisterns that do not hold water. it is in seeking our own help that the heart grows less attached; thus are modern idols invited in.