Proverbs 10:22 (NKJV) The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 10:22 (NIV) The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.
Proverbs 10:22 (NLT) The blessing of the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
I want to share a story with you in the Bible about a man who acquired great wealth from the Lord:
Genesis 26 (NLT) 1 A severe famine now struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham’s time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.
2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt, but do as I tell you. 3 Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I hereby confirm that I will give all these lands to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father. 4 I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed. 5 I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, decrees, and instructions.” 6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
7 When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.” 8 But some time later, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah.
9 Immediately, Abimelech called for Isaac and exclaimed, “She is obviously your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
“Because I was afraid someone would kill me to get her from me,” Isaac replied.
10 “How could you do this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin.”
11 Then Abimelech issued a public proclamation: “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death!”
12 When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him. 13 He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow. 14 He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him. 15 So the Philistines filled up all of Isaac’s wells with dirt. These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father, Abraham.
16 Finally, Abimelech ordered Isaac to leave the country. “Go somewhere else,” he said, “for you have become too powerful for us.”
17 So Isaac moved away to the Gerar Valley, where he set up their tents and settled down. 18 He reopened the wells his father had dug, which the Philistines had filled in after Abraham’s death. Isaac also restored the names Abraham had given them.
19 Isaac’s servants also dug in the Gerar Valley and discovered a well of fresh water. 20 But then the shepherds from Gerar came and claimed the spring. “This is our water,” they said, and they argued over it with Isaac’s herdsmen. So Isaac named the well Esek (which means “argument”). 21 Isaac’s men then dug another well, but again there was a dispute over it. So Isaac named it Sitnah (which means “hostility”). 22 Abandoning that one, Isaac moved on and dug another well. This time there was no dispute over it, so Isaac named the place Rehoboth (which means “open space”), for he said, “At last the LORD has created enough space for us to prosper in this land.”
23 From there Isaac moved to Beersheba, 24 where the LORD appeared to him on the night of his arrival. “I am the God of your father, Abraham,” he said. “Do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you. I will multiply your descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant.” 25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He set up his camp at that place, and his servants dug another well.
26 One day King Abimelech came from Gerar with his adviser, Ahuzzath, and also Phicol, his army commander. 27 “Why have you come here?” Isaac asked. “You obviously hate me, since you kicked me off your land.”
28 They replied, “We can plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we want to enter into a sworn treaty with you. Let’s make a covenant. 29 Swear that you will not harm us, just as we have never troubled you. We have always treated you well, and we sent you away from us in peace. And now look how the LORD has blessed you!”
30 So Isaac prepared a covenant feast to celebrate the treaty, and they ate and drank together. 31 Early the next morning, they each took a solemn oath not to interfere with each other. Then Isaac sent them home again, and they left him in peace.
32 That very day Isaac’s servants came and told him about a new well they had dug. “We’ve found water!” they exclaimed. 33 So Isaac named the well Shibah (which means “oath”). And to this day the town that grew up there is called Beersheba (which means “well of the oath”).
34 At the age of forty, Esau married two Hittite wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. 35 But Esau’s wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
In Genesis 26, we see Isaac, who had been residing at Hagar's well in the wilderness of Beersheba, is about to move his entire entourage to Egypt to escape the famine. But when he gets to Gerar, God stops him and tells him not to go to Egypt but to stay in the land. Isaac obeys God.
The Biblical valley of Gerar (Genesis 26:17) was probably located in the area of Wady Sheri'a. Currently it is believed to be the valley of Nahal Gerar. - Wikipedia
Isaac is now the heir, and therefore the holder, of the promise. Hence, the Lord enters into communication with him.
This tells me that God is in contact with Isaac and Isaac is listening. He has a relationship with God. And Isaac obeys what God tells him to do!
In this chapter we see God revealing His Presence with Isaac not once, but twice! In verses 2-5 and again in Beersheba in verses 24-25. He promises Isaac the same promise He had told Abraham. Isaac had been well trained and educated by Abraham on faith in God. He had heard the stories of his birth! He knew what a miracle it had been! I'm sure Abraham had told Isaac all about the promises and their family history (otherwise, it wouldn't have been passed down in order for Moses to record much later). And remember the story of how God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Isaac was no small child. Yet he went with his father willingly and did not fight his father when he was bound and Abraham had his knife raised. God stopped Abraham in time. It had been a test and Abraham, and Isaac, had passed the test. They trusted God so deeply that they were obedient even if it meant death. They knew God had promised a great amount of descendants through Isaac. He was the promised son. So they trusted that God knew what He was doing and would even raise Isaac up from the dead if need be. So they were obedient. Now God is confirming to Isaac what Isaac had already been taught by his father, Abraham, and what he had believed in all his life.
The Bible tells us that Abraham had faith in God and was made righteous because of his faith.
Galatians 3:6-9 (NIV) 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Hebrews 11:8-10 (NIV) 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
But Isaac makes a mistake out of fear in verses 7-11. He is afraid that Rebecca's beauty would entice men who would kill him to possess her! Abraham, himself, had done this twice before with Sarah! How could a man lie out of fear when he had just had a time with the Lord?!?
"In this narrative Isaac from motives of fear tells the inhabitants of Gerar that Rebekah is his sister. The resemblance to the similar narratives in the story of Abraham (1) in Egypt, Genesis 12:13, (2) at Gerar, chap. 20, is obvious." - Cambridge Bible for Scholars
"So Isaac enters into the same temptation that his father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister! It is an unaccountable thing, that both these great and good men should be guilty of so odd a piece of dissimulation, by which they so much exposed both their own and their wives’ reputation." - Benson Commentary
"There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his father, and that in two instances. This rendered his conduct the greater sin." - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
"Rebekah was at this time not less than thirty-five years married, and had two sons upwards of fifteen years old. She was still however in the prime of life." - Barne's Notes On The Bible
"He said, she is my sister; herein imitating his father Abraham in his infirmity and unbelief, who in the same place had made such an answer to a like question concerning Sarah, Genesis 20:1; and which if Isaac knew of, as probably he did, one would wonder that he should fall into the same evil, ... the fear of men, which brings a snare, led him to this..." - Matthew Poole's Commentary
"By which we see that fear and distrust is found in the most faithful." - Geneva Study Bible
We are currently living in some perilous times. I have been making sure I spend my daily time with God. I've continued reading and studying the Bible, praising God, prayer and watching our church on livestream on Sundays. Yet I have had periods of deep fear and depression. I'm no better than Abraham and Isaac were and they were no better than I am. How can we spend time with God and experience His presence then go out and face the day and fear come over us? I don't know but we do. It is sinful and something to fight. We win those fights and we lose some fights. Jesus is forgiving.
While in Gerar, Isaac planted crops. Having been nomadic (moving around), he had lots of livestock but in Gerar, he actually plants crops and God blesses them so that he reaps 100 fold over what he planted. His livestock greatly reproduce too. He is blessed. He becomes a very wealthy man, so much so that the citizens are jealous and concerned. They stop up Isaac's wells with dirt to force him to go away. King Abimelech asks him to leave his country because he's afraid Isaac could take control. So Isaac causes no trouble and moves on. Twice he stops thinking he has found a place and he has his men dig wells. But the citizens are afraid of him and they don't want him to settle in their community so they dispute the wells again and again. Isaac has the men and the money to stay wherever he wants to stay. But Isaac does not force his way. He just meekly moves on. He is a peacemaker, not a troublemaker. And God blesses him with a place for him to sink wells and live at Beersheba. Isaac had the right to those old wells of Abraham's. But he refused to make a stand and defend his rights, choosing to let God lead him to the right place.
"Isaac digged again the wells of water—The naming of wells by Abraham, and the hereditary right of his family to the property, the change of the names by the Philistines to obliterate the traces of their origin, the restoration of the names by Isaac, and the contests between the respective shepherds to the exclusive possession of the water, are circumstances that occur among the natives in those regions as frequently in the present day as in the time of Isaac." - Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
"The amazing growth of the stranger's wealth in flocks and herds and servants awakens the envy of the inhabitants. The digging of the well was an enterprise of great interest in rural affairs. It conferred a sort of ownership on the digger, especially in a country where water was precious. And in a primeval state of society the well was the scene of youthful maidens drawing water for domestic use, and of young men and sometimes maidens watering the bleating flocks and lowing herds, and therefore the gathering center of settled life. Hence, the envious Philistines were afraid that from a sojourner he would go on to be a settler, and acquire rights of property. They accordingly took the most effectual means of making his abiding place uncomfortable, when they stopped up the wells. At length the sovereign advised a separation, if he did not enjoin the departure of Isaac." - Barne's Notes On The Bible
"The Philistines’ envy was very natural, since Isaac was an alien, and, in some sense, an intruder. Their stopping of the wells was a common act of hostility, and an effectual one in that land, where everything lives where water comes, and dies if it is cut off... He cleaned out the wells which his father had digged, and with filial piety gave them again the old names ‘which his father had called them.’ Some of us nowadays get credit for being ‘advanced and liberal thinkers,’ because we regard our fathers’ wells as much too choked with rubbish to be worth clearing out, and the last thing we should dream of would be to revive the old names. But the old wells were not enough for the new time, and so fresh ones were added... Such a quiet spirit, strong in non-resistance, and ready to yield rather than quarrel, was strangely out of place in these wild days and lands. He obeyed the Sermon on the Mount millenniums before it was spoken. Whether from temperament or from faith, he is the first instance of the Christian type of excellence in the Old Testament. For there ought to be no question that the spirit of meekness, which will not meet violence by violence, is the Christian spirit... To fight for my rights is not the Christian ideal, nor is it the best way to secure them. Isaac will generally weary out the Philistines, and get his well at last, and will have escaped much friction and many evil passions. Isaac won the friendship of his opponents by his patience ."- McLaren's Expositions
"They made Isaac go out of their country. That wisdom which is from above, will teach us to give up our right, and to draw back from contentions. If we are wrongfully driven from one place, the Lord will make room for us in another." - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
So, in the end, we have Isaac being well taken care of by God. God has blessed him in wealth, livestock, crops and an abundant place to live without any wars, armed conflicts or fights. Isaac let God handle all that and he just followed where God led him. Isaac didn't let those Philistines get to him. He must have thought to himself, "I know I have the right to these wells and land. I know I have the ability to force the issue. But it isn't worth it. I don't need the headache. I don't want to force myself into a neighborhood that hates me. I don't want to be surrounded by enemies. I can afford to walk away and let God take care of the situation."
He was blessed all the more for having left his "rights" in God's hands. Where he settles is back in Beersheba, his men dig a well and he has all the water he needs without having to strive for it. No one contests his new place so he has found peace. God comes to him the 2nd time with His promises and this confirms to Isaac that he's where he is supposed to be. He builds an altar to God and worships God just like his father, Abraham, had done!
The King Abimelech sees that Isaac has settled on land that is still under his control. Isaac is still in Philistine territory. The return of Isaac to Beersheba was a matter of concern to Abimelech. But Isaac has shown to Abimelech that he is not a danger. He has not shown any tendency towards war. So this time Abimelech goes to him and asks for a treaty of peace.
We will leave this story and go back to our verse in Proverbs, "The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it." We have learned about Isaac and how he was in relationship with God. He was not perfect but he tried to live his life based on his relationship with God, trusting God to take care of things. Because he was able to let go and let God, he lived at peace and was blessed. The blessings God gave him did not turn him to all the sinful ways most rich men follow. Whether it be miserly, fear, greed, lust, pride, gluttony, and all manner of evil, Isaac didn't fall into it. Isaac didn't get rich by acting on his greed and pushing his way to the top. Those kind of people make their fortunes sinfully and they will have no peace (unless they repent and come to Jesus). They may be rich, famous, powerful, popular but there is no peace, no blessing from God. Their wealth will torment them. Whereas, Isaac was blessed by God, and there was no guilt, no bad conscience, no sin consequences to deal with. He learned to trust in God and let God fight the battles. This kept him at peace and God poured even more blessing over him!
Isaac is now the heir, and therefore the holder, of the promise. Hence, the Lord enters into communication with him.
This tells me that God is in contact with Isaac and Isaac is listening. He has a relationship with God. And Isaac obeys what God tells him to do!
In this chapter we see God revealing His Presence with Isaac not once, but twice! In verses 2-5 and again in Beersheba in verses 24-25. He promises Isaac the same promise He had told Abraham. Isaac had been well trained and educated by Abraham on faith in God. He had heard the stories of his birth! He knew what a miracle it had been! I'm sure Abraham had told Isaac all about the promises and their family history (otherwise, it wouldn't have been passed down in order for Moses to record much later). And remember the story of how God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Isaac was no small child. Yet he went with his father willingly and did not fight his father when he was bound and Abraham had his knife raised. God stopped Abraham in time. It had been a test and Abraham, and Isaac, had passed the test. They trusted God so deeply that they were obedient even if it meant death. They knew God had promised a great amount of descendants through Isaac. He was the promised son. So they trusted that God knew what He was doing and would even raise Isaac up from the dead if need be. So they were obedient. Now God is confirming to Isaac what Isaac had already been taught by his father, Abraham, and what he had believed in all his life.
The Bible tells us that Abraham had faith in God and was made righteous because of his faith.
Galatians 3:6-9 (NIV) 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. 8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Hebrews 11:8-10 (NIV) 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
But Isaac makes a mistake out of fear in verses 7-11. He is afraid that Rebecca's beauty would entice men who would kill him to possess her! Abraham, himself, had done this twice before with Sarah! How could a man lie out of fear when he had just had a time with the Lord?!?
"In this narrative Isaac from motives of fear tells the inhabitants of Gerar that Rebekah is his sister. The resemblance to the similar narratives in the story of Abraham (1) in Egypt, Genesis 12:13, (2) at Gerar, chap. 20, is obvious." - Cambridge Bible for Scholars
"So Isaac enters into the same temptation that his father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister! It is an unaccountable thing, that both these great and good men should be guilty of so odd a piece of dissimulation, by which they so much exposed both their own and their wives’ reputation." - Benson Commentary
"There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his father, and that in two instances. This rendered his conduct the greater sin." - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
"Rebekah was at this time not less than thirty-five years married, and had two sons upwards of fifteen years old. She was still however in the prime of life." - Barne's Notes On The Bible
"He said, she is my sister; herein imitating his father Abraham in his infirmity and unbelief, who in the same place had made such an answer to a like question concerning Sarah, Genesis 20:1; and which if Isaac knew of, as probably he did, one would wonder that he should fall into the same evil, ... the fear of men, which brings a snare, led him to this..." - Matthew Poole's Commentary
"By which we see that fear and distrust is found in the most faithful." - Geneva Study Bible
We are currently living in some perilous times. I have been making sure I spend my daily time with God. I've continued reading and studying the Bible, praising God, prayer and watching our church on livestream on Sundays. Yet I have had periods of deep fear and depression. I'm no better than Abraham and Isaac were and they were no better than I am. How can we spend time with God and experience His presence then go out and face the day and fear come over us? I don't know but we do. It is sinful and something to fight. We win those fights and we lose some fights. Jesus is forgiving.
While in Gerar, Isaac planted crops. Having been nomadic (moving around), he had lots of livestock but in Gerar, he actually plants crops and God blesses them so that he reaps 100 fold over what he planted. His livestock greatly reproduce too. He is blessed. He becomes a very wealthy man, so much so that the citizens are jealous and concerned. They stop up Isaac's wells with dirt to force him to go away. King Abimelech asks him to leave his country because he's afraid Isaac could take control. So Isaac causes no trouble and moves on. Twice he stops thinking he has found a place and he has his men dig wells. But the citizens are afraid of him and they don't want him to settle in their community so they dispute the wells again and again. Isaac has the men and the money to stay wherever he wants to stay. But Isaac does not force his way. He just meekly moves on. He is a peacemaker, not a troublemaker. And God blesses him with a place for him to sink wells and live at Beersheba. Isaac had the right to those old wells of Abraham's. But he refused to make a stand and defend his rights, choosing to let God lead him to the right place.
"Isaac digged again the wells of water—The naming of wells by Abraham, and the hereditary right of his family to the property, the change of the names by the Philistines to obliterate the traces of their origin, the restoration of the names by Isaac, and the contests between the respective shepherds to the exclusive possession of the water, are circumstances that occur among the natives in those regions as frequently in the present day as in the time of Isaac." - Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
"The amazing growth of the stranger's wealth in flocks and herds and servants awakens the envy of the inhabitants. The digging of the well was an enterprise of great interest in rural affairs. It conferred a sort of ownership on the digger, especially in a country where water was precious. And in a primeval state of society the well was the scene of youthful maidens drawing water for domestic use, and of young men and sometimes maidens watering the bleating flocks and lowing herds, and therefore the gathering center of settled life. Hence, the envious Philistines were afraid that from a sojourner he would go on to be a settler, and acquire rights of property. They accordingly took the most effectual means of making his abiding place uncomfortable, when they stopped up the wells. At length the sovereign advised a separation, if he did not enjoin the departure of Isaac." - Barne's Notes On The Bible
"The Philistines’ envy was very natural, since Isaac was an alien, and, in some sense, an intruder. Their stopping of the wells was a common act of hostility, and an effectual one in that land, where everything lives where water comes, and dies if it is cut off... He cleaned out the wells which his father had digged, and with filial piety gave them again the old names ‘which his father had called them.’ Some of us nowadays get credit for being ‘advanced and liberal thinkers,’ because we regard our fathers’ wells as much too choked with rubbish to be worth clearing out, and the last thing we should dream of would be to revive the old names. But the old wells were not enough for the new time, and so fresh ones were added... Such a quiet spirit, strong in non-resistance, and ready to yield rather than quarrel, was strangely out of place in these wild days and lands. He obeyed the Sermon on the Mount millenniums before it was spoken. Whether from temperament or from faith, he is the first instance of the Christian type of excellence in the Old Testament. For there ought to be no question that the spirit of meekness, which will not meet violence by violence, is the Christian spirit... To fight for my rights is not the Christian ideal, nor is it the best way to secure them. Isaac will generally weary out the Philistines, and get his well at last, and will have escaped much friction and many evil passions. Isaac won the friendship of his opponents by his patience ."- McLaren's Expositions
"They made Isaac go out of their country. That wisdom which is from above, will teach us to give up our right, and to draw back from contentions. If we are wrongfully driven from one place, the Lord will make room for us in another." - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
He was blessed all the more for having left his "rights" in God's hands. Where he settles is back in Beersheba, his men dig a well and he has all the water he needs without having to strive for it. No one contests his new place so he has found peace. God comes to him the 2nd time with His promises and this confirms to Isaac that he's where he is supposed to be. He builds an altar to God and worships God just like his father, Abraham, had done!
The King Abimelech sees that Isaac has settled on land that is still under his control. Isaac is still in Philistine territory. The return of Isaac to Beersheba was a matter of concern to Abimelech. But Isaac has shown to Abimelech that he is not a danger. He has not shown any tendency towards war. So this time Abimelech goes to him and asks for a treaty of peace.
We will leave this story and go back to our verse in Proverbs, "The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it." We have learned about Isaac and how he was in relationship with God. He was not perfect but he tried to live his life based on his relationship with God, trusting God to take care of things. Because he was able to let go and let God, he lived at peace and was blessed. The blessings God gave him did not turn him to all the sinful ways most rich men follow. Whether it be miserly, fear, greed, lust, pride, gluttony, and all manner of evil, Isaac didn't fall into it. Isaac didn't get rich by acting on his greed and pushing his way to the top. Those kind of people make their fortunes sinfully and they will have no peace (unless they repent and come to Jesus). They may be rich, famous, powerful, popular but there is no peace, no blessing from God. Their wealth will torment them. Whereas, Isaac was blessed by God, and there was no guilt, no bad conscience, no sin consequences to deal with. He learned to trust in God and let God fight the battles. This kept him at peace and God poured even more blessing over him!
- Write out our verse today in Proverbs in your journal. Answer these questions: Who? What? Why? How?
- Go to Genesis 26:2-6 and list the blessings God promises to Isaac.
- God had promised Isaac the land, descendants and blessing. Abraham had lived there too and had dug wells so the land was legally Isaac's. But when King Abimelech told him to move along, did Isaac fight back? He was wealthy enough and powerful enough to frighten King Abimelech so he obviously could have. He had "right on his side" and he had "might on his side"! But how did Isaac handle it?
- He moved on to two other places where he went to the expense and investment of digging wells but the inhabitants disputed him. He ended up leaving wells that he dug and those inhabitants now used. Would you have done that? Why or why not?
- Because of Isaac's humility and his trust that God would fight his battles and lead him to the right place, he was blessed and lived his life in peace. God did lead him to a place where he could settle down and live. His peaceful attitude also gave him a good reputation so that King Abimelech trusted him and made a peace treaty with him. What is your reputation? Are you a peacemaker or a troublemaker? Are you contentious and demanding or trusting in God and going with God's flow? Are you so aware of your "rights" that you fight for them all the time or are you able to let go of your rights, surrender them to God and able to trust Him to fight your battles?
- Are you able to live in peace and humility or do you live in pride and conflict? Are you able to see how some things just aren't worth the fight or do you think everything is worth the fight because your pride won't allow you to quit?
- Can you think of an example of someone who has led a humble, yet blessed life with peace and contentment?
- Can you think of an example of someone who has pushed their way to the top, they have everything but are miserable for it? They have no peace.
- Wells represented an investment and work in an area. You have to have water and wells were dug to reach that water. But you didn't go to the trouble and expense of digging wells if you weren't interested in sticking around. There were good wells and bad wells (with bad water or, in Isaac's case, were disputed). There are wells of favor and blessing and wells of bitterness and strife. What kind of well are you drawing from? Where have you pitched your tent and decided to live? What kind of well did you spend your time digging? What kind of well did you invest in? If it's not a well of living water, you've wasted your time, money and effort. Jesus is the well of living water, my friend, you can repent, pack up your tent and move to the well filled with living water. You don't have to continue to live off that bitter, poisonous water at your current well.
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