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Day 193

September 25, 2025 • Aneel Aranha • Season 3 • Episode 193

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Explore God's call to repentance through Jeremiah 1-4, cry out for mercy with Psalm 130, and discover generous living in 2 Corinthians 9, learning how God's provision enables faithful response.

Day 193 – Drawing From the Spring

Jeremiah 1–4
Psalm 130
2 Corinthians 9

Picture someone digging a well in the backyard, sweating for hours, while a clear stream runs just past the fence. It sounds foolish. But most of us do it more often than we'd like to admit. Today's readings begin with Jeremiah, a young man God set apart before he was even born. Jeremiah objects. I do not know how to speak, he says. I am too young. God doesn't argue with the facts. He touches Jeremiah's mouth and says, I have put my words in your mouth. Then in chapter 2, God names his people's problem. They have forsaken him, the spring of living water, and dug their own cisterns. Broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Yet he keeps calling them back. Return, and I will cure you of backsliding. Psalm 130 cries out from the depths and finds that with God there is forgiveness. And Paul tells the Corinthians that God is able to bless them abundantly, so they can abound in every good work. Seen as a whole, these readings ask one question. Are we drawing from the spring, or digging another cistern?

One thread ties all of this together. God is the living source of everything we need to obey him. Much of our spiritual struggle isn't a lack of effort. It's the exhausting work of leaning on our own leaky resources instead of his.

How might we walk this out today? Remember, what God calls you to do, he intends to supply from himself. Here are three ways to lean on that.

First, name your cistern. Where do you go when you feel empty? A screen, a purchase, someone's approval, or more work? The next time you reach for it today, pause for thirty seconds and ask God to meet that need himself.

Second, think of something God has asked of you that you keep putting off. Listen for your own version of "I am too young" or "I'm not the right person." Then hear God's reply to Jeremiah: I have put my words in your mouth. Take one small step toward it today.

Third, pray Psalm 130 tonight before you sleep. When you reach verse 4, think of one sin you've kept on record against yourself long after God forgave it. And let it go.

Let this stay with you today. Stop digging. The spring is already running.

Thank you for joining me today. May God refresh your soul, steady your courage, and fill you from the spring that never runs dry. Until tomorrow, drink deeply from the One who never runs out.