Broken Cisterns

Jeremiah handed God’s people a picture they couldn’t miss: they had walked away from a spring of living water to dig their own cisterns — cracked pits that couldn’t hold a drop. In this episode, Blake gets honest about the cisterns he spent years digging with his own hands: people-pleasing, pretending, showing off — every one of them a way of trying to find life apart from God.Drawing on Jeremiah 2:13, this devotional traces the two evils behind a thirsty soul — forsaking God and replacing Him — and the reckoning that comes when you finally see what you’ve been doing. Blake shares what it actually took to stop digging and turn back to the Fountain: a retraining that felt mysterious, even like death at times, but led to something better than results — a deeper connection with the Lord.Follow Before the Lord on Facebook (@BeforeTheLord) and Instagram (@beforethelorddevo). Get devotionals delivered to your inbox at blakescrawford.com/sign-up, or listen anytime at blakescrawford.com/listen.