Inexhaustible!

An empty tea pitcher here has always been problematic.  For me – not so much since I drink very little sweet tea.  But for Mr. Bill and the boys – summer or winter – that Southern staple was always a favorite!

 

“Let God be all in all to thee, and joy in the Fountain that is always full.” (Valley of Vision, a Puritan prayer). Can anyone really comprehend inexhaustible?  That tea pitcher certainly had a bottom to it, and I saw it often!  There was no joy in empty -- for the thirsty or the tea-maker.  This culture is rich in watering holes -- people-places-things -- dispensing variations of joy.  Trouble is, those wells run dry and leave us licking our lips for yet another supply.  God said, "My people ... have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, and they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water." (Jeremiah 2:13).  All I’ve ever known is an abundant supply of well water, and had no idea there were houses dependent on water from a reservoir (a cistern). When Christians turn to other sources for joy, the supply wanes and eventually empties completely.  The Puritan writes, “Look not below God for happiness.”  Oh, how foolishly we seek the joy for living in all the wrong people-places-things.  They leave us dry - empty – longing.  Are you victim of a broken and leaky joy supply?  God’s Word tells us Christ is The Fountain that never runs dry; He delivers "joy unspeakable." (1 Peter 1:8).  Don’t wait until you’re looking at the bottom of the well – turn now to The Father Who is refreshingly inexhaustible!