Made New

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst“ John 4:13

“My people have committed two sins: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns that cannot hold water“ Jeremiah 2:13

Why? Why would I make my own cistern for water when I could have fresh water that always flows? Why would I drink “this” water that always leaves me thirsty again when I could have water that quenches my dry parched body.

I guess because I hold this treasure in a jar of clay. This living water is held in a fragile, breakable, clay jar that leaks.

This clay jar has been broken and glued back together again many times and no matter how many times this jar – me – is dropped and broke I‘m always glued back together again.

In Jesus I am new. Glued back together, and leaks stopped up. He gives me new desires and new purpose, new focus, new living in his kingdom.

This jar of clay will continue to leak and be broken. I will unfortunately continue to build systems to store water rather than drink from the spring. However, Jesus will always glue me back together, & always offer me fresh water.

My cracks and glued together pieces I cannot hide but I will continue to say yes to drinking from His fresh spring even when the pond water looks better or appears easier, even when it means my life may change, even when it means I am uncomfortable or I have to rethink things.

I am learning what it means to be made new in Christ. I am learning how to say yes. I am learning how to accept his invitation, and I do, over and over, again and again.