The prophet Jeremiah preached for decades calling the people of Judah to repentance. In today's reading, we hear Jeremiah urging the people to listen to the word of the Lord. The people had stopped telling their salvation story: the story of the time when God delivered them from slavery in Egypt, led them through the dangers of the wilderness, and into the land of plenty God had promised to them. They had become enthralled by other stories and stopped asking, "Where is God?"
In compelling language Jeremiah names two sins of the people: they have forsaken God, the fountain of living water, and sought other sources of life which turn out to be cracked cisterns incapable of holding water of any kind.
The season of Lent calls us to self-examination and repentance. Am I being asked to remember what God has done and is doing for me? Where have I settled for a poor substitute for the living water that Christ offers to me?
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