For months the words "a bucket of holes" has come to mind. Social media makes this term most obvious.
Selfie-junkies show desperation for attention.
Confidence does not require countless posts of your face from different angles for "friends" to "like" and comment. Empty people starving for attention. Desperation. A bucket of holes.
Gathering "friends" on Facebook, anyone, everyone. No boundaries. It isn't real. The click of the "friend" request, a simple segue peaking into someones life you ought not to be watching. A seed planted. Curiosity. A bucket of holes.
There are social media sites I will not participate on. How much attention do you need? How much approval from people who really don't matter is enough? A void in their life they are trying to fill. A bucket of holes.
Too much time is spent on technology.
Too much time is spent seeking attention and approval.
Too much time is spent looking outward instead of upward, inward, and right beside you.
A bucket of holes is never filled.
This theme is made more obvious to me and with heightened awareness I really look at others differently. The broken and desperate versus the confident, the steadfast and wise.
I've been aware of this recurring theme for months and just yesterday a still small voice echo the term, "broken cisterns."
Broken cisterns? I am searching my memory bank, where did I hear this? I believe this is biblical.
A bucket of holes, broken cisterns. There has to be a connection here.
I've been praying for weeks to hear God's voice, this is what I hear. Not the divine direction I was hoping, but perhaps what I need to be made most aware of.
For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me,
the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jeremiah 2:13
Doing some research I found this wealth of information on broken cisterns.
What I found was a direct parallel. A theme that presented itself in heightened awareness for months, a still small voice, and a direct parallel. The bottom photo found 20 minutes after I posted the top photo.
Awareness is a tool to spot out true character, integrity, wisdom and hero.
