Digging wells and cisterns

"My people have committed two sins:
       They have forsaken me,
       the spring of living water,
       and have dug their own cisterns,
       broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
So goes Jehovah's complaint about the faithless Israelites.(Jeremiah 2 :13) Now what are cisterns? They are man made reservoirs, hewed and chipped out of rocks, for storing water. These can very well get polluted by dirt or insects, or if broken, water can just seep out of it, leaving it empty. Both can be disastrous. But wellsprings are different. here the water comes from a source of its own, from the depths of the earth. it is unpolluted fresh water.
I've been trying to read the Book of Wisdom  last week, trying to pump out the freshness of the Living Word from the Bible. Suddenly there fell before me a fantasy novel, a creative imitation of J.K. Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. I was forced to read it due to an unforeseen circumstance. But then I realized the difference between a well and a broken cistern.I felt like Dante  in the second circle of Inferno.There, he meets Francesca da Rimini  who tells him  her woeful story of how she happened to reach hell.It was all due to a weak moment of temptation to which she yielded, and before long lo..., she and her brother in law Paolo were murdered by her husband Giovanni even before they could repent!A terrible domestic tragedy indeed!.See how she narrates the whole incident to Dante , who was moved to tears of sorrow and pity seeing her afflictions!
       One day, to pass the time away, we read
      Of Lancelot - how love had overcome him.
      We were alone , and we suspected nothing.
       And time and again that reading led
       Our eyes to meet, and made our faces pale,
        And yet one point alone defeated us.
         When we had read how the desired smile
         Was kissed by one who was so true a lover,
         this one , who never shall be parted from me,
         While all his body trembled , kissed my mouth.
A Gallehault indeed, that book and he
who wrote it, too; that day we read no more."
While she narrated thus to Dante, her lover Paolo Malatesta, her companion in sin wept beside her in that second circle of inferno where Lucifer buffeted forever the carnal sinners with violent storms.And Dante fainted !
In the Old Testament times, there are mentions of how the Israelites dug wells and how Philistines came and plugged them with silt or mud. But then they kept on digging again and again, because water was and still is essential for life.Water, the elixir of life. Ha!
Maranatha, Come Lord jesus