Come to the Ancient Well
Genesis 26:18 Long before this time, Abraham had dug many wells. After he died, the Philistines filled the wells with sand. So Isaac went back and dug those wells again. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
There’s a tendency in the high-tech, fast-moving, AI-driven world in which we live to dismiss the wisdom of our forefathers (if I can use such an old-fashioned word) as being largely irrelevant to the age in which we live.
So many of the self-evident, foundational truths and practices handed down to us through the centuries have been cast aside amidst a kind of “we know better these days” attitude. Of course, change is a constant and some of the social change that’s gone on has been positive indeed.
Women are no longer treated as goods and chattels, though we still have a way to go. Children are no longer to be seen but not heard. But the casting aside of godly wisdom has also had some terrible, some devastating consequences as well.
It’s almost as though we’ve systematically filled up, plugged up, these ancient wells of wisdom on the one hand, and then we stand here on the other wondering why we’re dying of thirst.
Genesis 26:18 Long before this time, Abraham had dug many wells. After he died, the Philistines filled the wells with sand. So Isaac [his son] went back and dug those wells again. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
I wonder if it isn’t time to dig up those ancient wells again … the wells of God’s timeless wisdom; the wisdom of His love, His peace, His power for us in the lives we’re leading here and now.
So here’s your invitation. Come back to the ancient well – the well of God’s Word and drink deep of His Presence
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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