Do you feel as though there are impediments put in your way, as though you take a hundred steps and are drawn back to square one? Life can sometimes seem so. There are often seen and unseen enemies who may loathe our very success, and make every effort to cause us pain, and make us retrogress.
Isaac had to endure cruelty from the Philistines when he stayed in Philistine.This is because he grew wealthy and the Philistines envied him, and therefore put impediments in the way of his prosperity. It was through farming that Isaac had grown wealthy, so the Philistines sought to strip him of his riches by filling his dug up wells with earth - Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. 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. Genesis 26:12-15
Out of envy and jealousy, some people would resort to all sorts of evil to try to hinder our progress in life. We must be steadfast, trusting in the Lord, and in His Word, and always seeking newness in Him (Water and the Word of God is symbolic of newness of life - Ephesians 5:26). Even when it comes to worse and we lose so much in life, so much of all that we have previously worked for, we must still dream again. With the help of God, we must persist to unearth old wells, as well as to dig new wells. If even all the old wells are taken from us, we ought to focus on the new. We can always have a new fulfilling life through God and His Son Jesus. We must never give up just because people who detest us for no good reason, attempt to cause us to fail.
Genesis 26:16-22 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us. So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. 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.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. 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. Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. 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.”
If you persist in the Lord, and do not allow the enemy and his human and spiritual agents to hinder your success story, the Lord will make a way, and no matter how many wells - symbolic of life's good opportunities - that are wrongfully taken from you, you will once again attain what God has destined for you. You will find new and even better opportunities, if you keep at it, and not give up, or be bitter. Sometimes in life, you have to forget the former things and start all over. Isaac tried over and over to re-dig his father's wells, but was hindered again and again. Even when he decided to dig up fresh wells, he was initially hindered. But he never gave up, he tried and tried until God gave him success.
Do not give up on your wholesome endeavours, if you continue in faith and in hope, God shall intervene and grant you success. So find strength in the Lord, and dig up another well!
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