The Fount of Blessing…

How often do we sing songs yet not give the words much thought?  We sing the words, maybe we even have them memorized, but we don’t really think about what we are saying.  Perhaps that happens all too often.  Start considering what you are singing.  Not just in the ‘songs, hymns and spiritual songs’, but in the secular as well.  We are not offering up an acceptable sacrifice of praise (in my opinion) if we don’t know what we are offering up.  If you don’t understand a song or the wording behind it…ask someone.  Begin to search and look more closely at what you’re singing.  Question with boldness, as Thomas Jefferson once said, and find out why you are doing what you’re doing; or what you’re singing and why you are singing it.

Have you ever walked up to an old, dirty water fountain and thought, ‘I’m not going to drink out of this!’  Even if you’re are ‘dying of thirst’, you’re going to avoid a broken, dirty water fountain.  In Jeremiah chapter 3, God is speaking through His prophet Jeremiah and He says to the Israelites; “For My people have…forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters…” (read this whole chapter and see the basis of God’s charge against His people.)  The Israelites (God’s people today) have turned away from the ‘fountain of blessing’ and turned toward their own broken cistern (a cistern is a vessel).  Their cistern is not only broken, it can’t even hold water.  Why would they, we, give up something so good and useful for something that is cheap and ineffective?  How could they be so ignorant?  But then again, are we guilt of doing the same?

Not only does this world ignore and disregard God, many of His people struggle with His commands.  We must remember that; God is our fountain and Christ is the Living Water.  Take time to think about what you are singing, and consider which fountain from which you are drinking.

“O Thou Fountain of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy praise…”

“God is the Fountain  whence, 10,000 blessing flow…”