His family, his men, their wives and children, and also the animals that he had acquired were tired. They had traveled from one spot of the country to the other, always finding water, but never finding peaceful coexistence. Someone else was always putting a claim on what they had reopened. "Surely, if my father had been living, it would be easier," he thought.
Knowing that the wells they had reopened were wells founded by his father, it never occurred to him that they would cause the people around him to rise up and claim them as their own. After all, every one knew that his father had discovered them, but the dissension that he had encountered from people who knew him, since he had walked the earth surprised him. So, the man began to label this passage of his journey, according to the events taking place in his life.
Should he stop digging and make an agreement with the dissenters about the wells? Had he misunderstood his LORD and the promise of the blessing that would be passed on to him? Was he in God's will for himself and his entire household? Should he fight for what was obviously his? These were the questions that confronted him as he found each well.
As he left the land where he had prospered, he had not known where to go, so he had gone back to the valley of Gerar. Finding the first well, he and his men had rejoiced. It was a well of springing water, but the herdmen from Gerar laid claim to it and he named it, Esek, meaning, "those that fought with me."
The second well, they found, was also a beautiful spring of flowing water in the valley of Gerar. But the next tribe of herdmen also laid claim to it and he called it, Sitnah, and he and his household moved farther.
By this time, he was a little nervous, depressed and in despair. Where was the well for him? Should he keep moving? Where was God in all of this? These were the questions that ran through the man's mind? "Why wasn't God doing something about the false claims being made by the people in Gerar?" he asked himself.
Being pushed farther outside of the valley, into a part of the country that no one wanted, he and his men dug again for a well. Finding the well, they were surprised that no one wanted it, and he named it, Rehoboth, and spoke aloud to himself, "the LORD has made room for us and we will be fruitful in the land."
The man was Issac. Having lived with his father, he had enjoyed the blessings of Abraham. When Abraham died, Issac had to establish a relationship with God for himself, and so it is with our own journey. We have to find our well of life.
Like Issac, if you go back to the wells that your family dug or you dug before your commitment to find your well of life, you might find them to be occupied and someone else laying claim to them. If so, do not argue over it, just keep moving on and please, do not stop digging! There is a well out there for you. It is a fact that God lays a dream in your heart and then he will hide himself, just to see what you will do. If you stop moving and do nothing, that is the wrong answer. Think about the man with the one talent! He took his talent and hid it in the ground, and that was the biggest mistake he could have made in his life. He lost it all, including that what he had.
No man or woman of God has been given a blessing of any size without first having to find his or her well of life. Regardless of who it is, men and women like Phil and Chris Pringle, Dave and Joyce Meyer, Graham and Patricia Fletcher, Manfred and Martina Schwarzkopf, Garry and Ann Biller, William Graham, Reinhard Bonnke, Ekkehard and Connie Hornburg, Bernd and Julia Druschel, and I can keep naming them because the list is long, had to find their well of life. They would not be living in the flow of their "best life now," if they had not continued to dig, until they found their well.
It is interesting to see that after Issac had declared Rehoboth, as the well of life for him and his household, God visited him and gave him the blessing.
Is your dream valuable enough for you to find your well of life? Have you been blessed with a talent that is precious to you, but you are not using it, because you do not know how and where? Have you dug a well and thought it was your well of life, only to have someone else claim it? If so, then keep moving, and continue to dig until you find your well of life that God intends for you to have and receive the blessing.
It's up to you.
Shalom,
Pat Garcia
1 Genesis 26:24 (King James Version)
2 Photos by Pat Garcia
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