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Soul Hydration

Writer's picture: Guy CohenGuy Cohen

Harvest of Asher

Akko, Israel



“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the source of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)

What living water is Jeremiah talking about?


When someone is thirsty, they look for something to drink. Today there are all types of soft drinks, energy drinks, and other beverages to quench our thirst. None of them are the pure, clear, unaltered water that is the best choice for our body. In fact, most of these options are not healthy at all.


Our body is made up of physical H2O water which needs to be replenished by drinking. However, here Jeremiah is speaking about the living water needed to revive a dry and weary soul.


What does it mean when the Lord says His people have forsaken Him? How?


It comes down to what we are accustomed to worshipping, what we are extolling, what we are chasing. In most cases then and now, people look to something they can see and hold on to. During Jeremiah’s time they would make idols of wood or stone, or turn to the sun and moon. Today’s idols include possessions, status, perverted sexuality, horoscopes, talismans, charms and symbols of power (idolatries which can open the door to demonic influence). To satisfy and quench our thirsty soul, mankind throughout history so often looks to something other than the creator of the universe. This is how we have forsaken Him.


We are confronted daily with situations that cause our souls to become dry. What is the reason thirsty souls do not drink living water?


In John 4 we read of the Samaritan. Yeshua, the source of living water, stands beside the well with no way to draw physical water. We then see the Samaritan woman with all the tools to draw the water to physically quench thirst; yet she has a thirsty soul and a dry heart which cannot be helped by drinking from that well. Yeshua’s words touched the parched aspects of her life opening her up to receive His living water.


Looking at the role of the prophet in situations like this we see the importance of being guided in our daily lives by the Holy Spirit. In this way, as it was and is with the prophetic, we can be at the right place at the right time, speaking to the right person and touching, as did Yeshua, the place which opens them up to receive waters that never run dry, never to thirst again.


Yeshua has many names; the one we see here in Jeremiah is “the source of living water.” We, the believers in Yeshua who carry the Spirit of the Living God in us, must take our appointed places in prayer and intercession for the dry and weary hearts to draw on Him the true source of living water.





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