eating crab legs
so far, we’ve identified 5 false sourcesof joy – typical ways we try to experience joy. but the key word is false – these fivesources of joy aren’t really sources at all….they just appear to be. so if they’refake, why do we keep going there? why don’t we figure it out? jeremiah 2:13 says, where god is talking to israel: “my people have committed two sins: they have forsaken me, the springof living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.†for those of you not raised on a ranch, like i was not--i'm a city girl. you might not know what a cistern is!a cistern is just an underground container to catch and hold water.at that moment in israel's history, the nation of israel was in exile, far from god becauseshe had worshipped other idols and rebelled against him. in this verse, god mentions twoof the specific ways israel had disobeyed him. he tells them they had forsaken him – thetrue god – and to add insult to injury, t...