BIBLE DESCRIPTIONS OF BACKSLIDING (PART 1)

 Scripture: Jeremiah 2: 13       

“they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water”

Jeremiah 2:13   

Description 1: Exchanging fountains for broken cisterns

When I was a medical student, I was sent on a working visit to Danfa, a Ghanaian village, for two weeks. Once, during a field trip, we came across another remote village that had no running water. Since the village had no running water, they had dug a large hole in the ground where water gathered; often this water was dirty and brownish. The people in the village bathed, defecated, and urinated in it. At the same time, they drank from it and used it to cook. This water obviously gave them various diseases and sicknesses.

In the bible, backsliding people are likened to people who have access to clear running water, but exchange it for dirty smelly water- just like what I saw in that village.

I am sure you would wonder why someone would leave sweet, fresh, infection-free water, for sickness-infested and dirty water. There are believers who have had access to a life of holiness and godliness. However, they have rejected that to live a sinful and demon-controlled life.

God has given you an alternative to the dirty brown water. God is telling you that when you backslide you are going back to something terrible which will eventually kill you. He is telling you not to do something as absurd as drinking muddy water.

 

Credits: Excerpts from

Backsliding: Develop staying power

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

Comments

  1. Anonymous21 November 2023 at 07:24

    Amen! "... rejected Christ to live a sinful and demonic life." O Lord grant me the grace to stay put in You always.

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  2. Vivian Atieno21 November 2023 at 08:12

    One of the biblical descriptions of backsliding people is that God compares them to those who trade their fountain fresh water for broken cistern.As a believer when you backslide , you exchange your life of holiness and godliness to live a life of sinful and demon control life which will eventually kill you.Heavenly father help me not to turn away from you,give me the power to live a holy and godly life in Jesus mighty name amen.

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  3. favour21 November 2023 at 08:48

    backsliders reject the holy and godly life that God gave us and they prefer to have a sinful life and be controlled by devil. we have to choose to go forward with God .

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