Musicians with Broken Cisterns

                                                           Musicians with Broken Cisterns

       Jeremiah 2:13 states, “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living water, and have hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

       God sent his prophet Jeremiah to plead with the nation of Israel who had begun to worship false gods.  After all that God had done for Israel, they had changed their worship to false gods.

       Notice that they had forsaken the fountain of living water.  They had gone after their own source of spiritual strength (broken cisterns).  Their worship had left them dry spiritually because these cisterns would not hold water.

       The ministering musician is constantly giving to others.  As I have told my ministering music groups for years, “You can’t feed others unless you eat.”  If you have some kind of broken cistern that has failed to sustain you spiritually, get out your ladder, broom and mop and clean out the inside of your cistern.

       If your cistern is not clean on the inside the plaster will not adhere to your spiritual cistern walls. All the junk in your life must be removed!  If you are going to store up the pure living water, you may have to “clean house” or the means of grace will not be efficacious.

       Remember, the children of Israel were incurable worshipers.  When they quit drinking the living water they started worshiping false gods.  Satan doesn’t care which “thing” we worship as long as it is something other than our loving Heavenly father.  He doesn’t even care if we worship religious music.

       The Bible lesson to be remembered is that we should make sure we are taking advantage of the fountain of living water.  God has enough of this water to sustain every ministering musician.  We also must be sure that we have not started worshiping music fads and trends or any genera of music but rather worship GOD with music that appropriately represents and honors Him.  Anything less is a broken cistern.