Fri.’s Devo - Wells of Salvation

Read: Genesis 26:17-27:46; Matthew 9:1-17; Psalm 10:16-18; Proverbs 3:9-10
A well was a picture of a filling station for your spirit. In our day, a well might be a church or your place of spiritual fellowship, refreshing, and deep revelation. So there was much spiritual warfare and physical warfare over wells. Isaac just kept on digging till he dug one that wasn’t contested over.
Isaac was met with Abimelech who had sent his father, Abraham away when he found out that Abraham had lied to him about Sarah. Now he wanted Isaac and his people near because he recognized the Lord’s favor on them. This is a picture that is playing out in our lifetime. Where government has hated the Christian and especially the prophet, now they are seeing the significance of having them close and are seeking them out.
Isaac and Abimelech ate together and made a covenant of peace. Then they went their own way. When they did this God was able to open a new well for Isaac and his people on their own burying ground. This signified the reopening of Abraham’s promise that God had given him at this very spot. He had promised to bless him and make a great nation of him and his decedents. They were to bless the whole world, and not be enemies of the world.
Next we see the struggle for the blessing. While Esau was out finding game for his father, Jacob sneaked in and deceitfully took his blessing. Esau got a blessing, but it was not the one he wanted so he planned to kill Jacob. This showed that Esau didn’t know a lot about God. Rebekah found out and planned a way of escape for Jacob. She would send Jacob to Haran to find a wife.
In Matthew, Jesus healed and forgave the paralytic, shut the mouths of the teachers of the law and called a tax collector to be his disciples. Then Jesus gave them the picture of the new patch on the old garment and the new wine and the old wineskins. Jesus came to do something new but the ones who couldn’t make the switch would not be saved.
Lord, may our hearts be new and fresh so that we can receive your mercy’s that are new every morning.