We continue our weekend theme: Looking at the early posts on other devotional blogs. This is the very first post from The Well.
“So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.”In a time of famine, Isaac didn’t run, didn’t seek for greener pastures, didn’t do the natural thing — he stood firm and trusted God.
He worshipped — he built an altar
He prayed — he called on the name of the Lord
He found a well — he unstopped it, dug it up
He drew from the well — he prospered in that place!
The springing up from below, in contrast to the outpouring from above, is associated with private encounters with God where you alone are the sole recipient of His attention. This “inner baptism” involves the digging out of plugged up wells and the breaking down of emotional dams that block the flow of the underground springs of the Spirit that every believer has been granted .
As we may go anywhere with comfort when God’s blessing goes with us, so we may stay anywhere contentedly if that blessing rests upon us
(Genesis 26:25) (unknown) (Matthew Henry)
Christianity 201 