Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians)

by Drew Dyck

We might shake our head at how often the ancient Israelites fell into idolatry, yet we aren’t so different. Yeah, we probably don’t literally bow before a stone deity, but whenever we turn to something else for the satisfaction that only God can provide, we’re doing the same thing. We’re digging our own cisterns. And like God warned, they cannot hold water. If that sounds too abstract, let me get practical. Your phone is a dry cistern. It can’t quench the desire for connection and love that you crave. Your work is a dry cistern if you’ve tied your sense of self-worth to it. That 401(k) that you keep checking obsessively is a dry cistern. The security it promises is an illusion. The peace you seek can only be found in trusting God with your future. The likes and comments on social media are dry cisterns. They’ll never provide the approval that your soul craves. Even your relationships with others can be dry cisterns when you heap expectations on them that only God can fulfill. In the end it doesn’t matter what cistern you choose. It will never hold water.