You are not welcome

Water is a precious commodity in any desert. If you have water, you have life and, in some ways, you have power. You can leverage the water to your advantage. 

And so, in a similar way, you can also use the access to water as a power tool. You can invite people to share the water, or you can deny them the opportunity to drink from the Well. Take a read of this story of Isaac and see how he encountered this situation.

Genesis 26:14-22 - "He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. 15 So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”

17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. 20 But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek,  because they disputed with him. 21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Thought: If we picture the Church as a "well" of sorts, (offering the life-giving water of Jesus), is our message to people: 'you are not welcome at our well?' OR are we willing to share the Gift that God has given to us?

Living in Grace

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