11512 It is contrary to reason for a thirsty person to turn from a pure, sparkling mountain stream to quench his thirst at a stale, putrid cistern—yet that is what the human race does when it rejects God’s truth and standards in favor of the devil’s impure philosophies.
Billy Graham
He’s saying, “Let’s take a look at your false masters, your pseudo-saviors, your broken earthly cisterns that you’re going to instead of the well of eternal life, the spring of eternal life. Then, finally, he says, “I am he.
Timothy Keller
We too have tried to dig our own cisterns and to find blessing in all the wrong places.
