Read Gen 29:1-11
Jacob enters the country of his fathers and the first thing he comes to is a well in a field. When Jesus met the woman by the well he explained to her that this well was full of water that would only satisfy her temporarily, but he was a well that was filled with living water that completely satisfies. The well symbolizes the living water of the Word that gives life and salvation. This salvation is like a well in the field of life that few find. Isaac, Jacob, and Moses all three found their wives at a well. The woman in the New Testament found her husband, Jesus at a well. The only way to get the living waters is to remove the stone that covers it’s opening. The “stone” is whatever keeps us from being able to receive the living waters that God has for us. Once removed, we can drink freely and receive life.
Jacob spoke to the shepherds who were gathered to get water and asked them where they were from and if they knew his uncle, Laban. They were from the same town and knew him and his daughter was walking up to the well as they spoke. He asked them why they were sitting around the well and not feeding their sheep. They said they were waiting for more shepherds so they could help them remove the big stone over the well’s mouth. (They needed the angels who blew Jesus’ stone clear into the next mountain.) That is the thing about the Old Testament - its deep truths come with a stone over them and only those who have “eyes to see” and will remove the stone and draw up its deep truths. When Jacob saw Rachael, it was love at first sight. He walked over and rolled that stone away by himself and watered all of her flock then kissed her and wept. (Hollywood aught to get a hold of that story.) Jacob was a man who went for the prize and always got it.
Lord, help us to be like Jacob, who gives everything to get what he knows to be valuable.
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