Broken Cisterns

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." Jer. 2: 13 My brother once mentioned this scripture to me. He spoke of how we look for other gods, for other things to give us pleasure, to comfort us; for people to love us, for men to praise us, for money to fill us with pride, for physical relationships to give us pleasure, the list goes on. I won't lie to you, I have placed other things before God, tangible things that I thought would bring me pleasure or happiness. But every single time, without fail I end up empty, I end up bitter; as if i ate something that was sweet at first, but had a bad after taste. Friends tell me, Why do we continually dig our own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water??? Again and again, we turn away from the LIVING WATER!! But now I drink of it, i'm swimming in it, i'm dancing it; and i've thrown away my empty and broken cisterns. I have nothing to loose, for He promises so much to those who delight in Him. 'Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.' Psalm 1: 1-3