Dry sources

"Therefore, this is what the Lord says: “If you return, then I will restore you— You will stand before Me; and if you extract the precious from the worthless, you will become My spokesman. They, for their part, may turn to you, but as for you, you are not to turn to them." Jeremiah 15:19

Today I felt led to read the first chapter of He Healed Me, and I found it very refreshing to read about the principle that “They [everyone around me] don't have it.” This chapter reminds me that my Beloved has spoken to me about the faith of a child, since children believe everything their parents or adults tell them, we grow up with the comfort of having all our needs covered in our parents, as babies and children. Little ones we trust them because we believe and feel loved and cared for, we are not worried about how we will eat or what we will eat, we are not worried about what we will wear or what will become of us tomorrow, we just want to enjoy the day, play, run, explore the world...

I wonder where that thread breaks with HIM, do we get used to receiving help and provision from human hands? Perhaps our parents fail to tell us that everything they give us comes from God. Perhaps as parents, we have robbed God of the glory of what he has given us to give to our children? ... Knowing in advance the experience of being my sister's mother, I know that a lot of patience is required (among other things of course), and that patience must undoubtedly come from HIM, since love is patient, He is love and Every good gift and gift comes down from heaven, from our Heavenly Father (James 1:7).

I would have liked to grow up in a way where I knew that everything came from God and not put my trust in my parents [or other humans] for help or comfort, although frankly, I don't know how that would work or how I could apply this as a mother today. day; I would like to tell and repeat to my [future] children that all the good they receive is from God, not from me. The point is that our thinking must be renewed with the truth, and the truth is that everything we have comes from God, so it makes no sense for us to go to anyone for what we need, nor for us to glory in who we are. capable of giving or doing, much less for what we receive, however, that has been the easy path and the one we have known since childhood.

But even all this worked for my good, just as it happened 🙂 there I find His love too!

God in His mercy has provided us in this way for a long time, and it is fair for that reason, to teach us that it is not the truth that He must take away from us all the “apparent sources” of all things, such as the friend or counselor so that we only turn to HIM, the husband so that we know that HE is our provider and Lover, so that we open our eyes to the truth that HE is the only inexhaustible and main source, the rest of the “fountains” [or broken cisterns] are supplied by HIM, as we are to be able to GIVE of the good we receive.

It is true that when we are next to people who are full of the love of God, we feel attracted to them, with the desire to know what is the source, what is what gives them peace during crises, what is what They do so they prosper in everything they do, and everything just points toward heaven, points toward our Maker, our Heavenly Husband. On the contrary, when we are close to people in deep need we feel the desire to flee... perhaps because we all seek happiness or because we like to “hold on” and if we see that they want to take from us we resist? Umm... I think the latter usually happens to me unconsciously 😣

I can see that while I did not have an intimate relationship with my Beloved and while I did not supply myself with Him – The Source – I had NOTHING good to GIVE, because even the “good” I gave was full of selfishness in expecting to receive in return, then I came to times when I felt dry without the desire to give anything, that I became irritable, contentious, longing to receive from others, I was angry because the sources I turned to were empty, broken, and frequently irritable also because they expected to receive something from me, but they did not receive either, finally we were all in the same precarious situation!! This is exactly how the relationships I had fell apart.

Among all those sources I was CHOSEN [as You were too] to be supplied from the inexhaustible source of the One who promised to give me water from which when I drink I would never thirst again, with it I will have more than enough for myself and I might even be able to give to those dry fountains, but instead of allowing them to empty me, I must not turn to them but point the way to the Eternal Fountain.

I pray that this knowledge will be written on the tablets of my heart and never again go to the wrong source, for my Beloved is the source of the water of life that I desire and choose to drink today and every day.

"But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4:14