Today's encouragement comes from Genesis 26:18, where we read these great words:
"And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them."In every generation, God calls upon His church to once-again "re-dig" the wells of the waters of life in Christ, which our "fathers" had employed and en-joyed (in the past). The "Philistines" are always roaming around, seeking to “stop" [or fill] our wells "up" with the "earth" of the world—but they are never fully-able to eradicate the existence of these good and heavenly gospel oases in Christ.
Jesus, as found in His gospel of grace, is the embodiment and Personification of The Water of Life. May we, God's faithful church, even today, be found to be busy at "digging again” His precious spiritual “wells”—all of which refresh us in our Redeemer.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Where else can we now go but to Jesus, the ever-living Head of the whole church . . . who sends all gospel ministers, and on whom they universally depend?” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, "The Sorrows of the Bereaved Spread before Jesus"]
