Read Genesis 26:12-33
Today marks another 2-week extension into the nation’s movement restriction order in the attempt to battle Covid-19. Many people will begin to feel the pinch from their place of employment. Businesses loosing income will start to tighten their belts to make ends meet.
If you belong to an organisation which values employees as their greatest asset, then you are blessed and you can be assured you will still have work in months to come. However, many will likely be finding themselves looking for work or a means to generate income.
The story of Isaac digging wells May not be familiar to many, but it gives us an important reminder for many to think of in times to come. And that principle is to “keep digging wells until you find water”.
Isaac had just reaped a bountiful profit because of the Lord’s blessing on him. However the enemy envied Isaac and filled up all his wells with dirt such that he could not sow anything. However Isaac knew that God is faithful and if God could bless him once, He could certainly do it again.
As he began to dig a new well, all looked fine until he came across opposition which forced him to move elsewhere to dig again, and again, and again… until God shows up and assures Isaac that He is still on his side.
The Pentecostal influence I grew up under taught me an interesting phrase regarding prayer which is “pray through it, not pray about it”. What it meant was that you don’t stop praying over a matter until God moves into it. Perhaps you would have come across acronyms like P.U.S.H. which stands for Pray Until Something Happens or “keep praying till the answer comes”.
Isaac, who kept digging here and there, reminds us that we need to keep praying here and there, until God shows up in our situation. Matthew 7:7 tells us to keep on asking, keep seeking and keep knocking and the important verse is the next one which says “For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:8 ESV
If you are in a situation where you’re looking for a job, continue to “dig another well to find water”, in the realm of job hunting and in the realm of prayer. If you are in a situation where business is failing, continue to dig here and there to find a new source of “water” and keep on praying until God shows up. Whatever your situation, whatever uncertainty the future may be, God will show up to meet and assure us if we only “pray through it”.
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