Two Evils

12Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
13for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:12-13
I try to take a passage every day from where I am reading and try to understand it. This is saying God's people have forsaken him, that is the first evil. The second evil is they have hewed out broken cisterns that do not hold water. What we have replaced God with when we forsook him is not going to work. It will not hold water. That was the second evil. I was looking at all the cars in a parking lot of several churches on my way to church this past Sunday and I wondered how good these Christians were. There were a lot of them. Sometimes we hear statistics about how believers no longer believe in the inerrant word of God. Some want to make the word fit our politically correct society today. We want to change the word instead of the word changing us. I thought am I one of those. Do I have a form of godliness but deny his power and his sovereignty as I make my way to church Sunday after Sunday. Be appalled, be shocked if you take a look inside and don't like what you see. God is still sovereign, he is still in control. We may not understand his every way, I do not understand his every word.  Just being a Christian in name only is not enough, we are using a broken cistern that will not hold water. Jesus is the only way to salvation. It is in him and through him, we come to God the father. If there was any other way, Jesus did not need to die on a cross. If there was another way, we could all find that way and come to God, but scripture tells us Jesus is the way the truth and the life.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6

Any other way we try is a broken cistern and will not hold water, it will not work.
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12
The word of God is true, Jesus is the truth. There is no my truth, your truth and everyone has their own truth. Any other way is broken and will not work. There is a book I read recently,  "Not All Roads Lead To Heaven".  There is only one way to God.  God bless, LVZ.