There’s Fire in You

Genesis 26:22 GNT
He moved away from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he named it “Freedom.” He said, “Now the LORD has given us freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here.”

This is a story about Abraham’s son, Isaac. When Isaac was fully grown, married, and his father Abraham had passed away, he tried to dig a well to feed the flock of sheep that he had inherited from his father. Every time he tried to dig a well, a gang of shepherds would come and steal the well from him.

One of the most valuable resources at that time in Israel was water. Water was both necessary for life and relatively scarce. So a resource like a well was extremely valuable and necessary in Bible times. Without a well, you would have no water for grass and no water for your animals. So for a shepherd like Isaac, no water meant having all of your animals die of thirst while you go into poverty.

In Bible times, if someone stole your well, you would probably have to fight for it. After all there are only so many places where you could dig a well and without a well you would wind up in poverty. Most people in that time had a strong mentality of winners and losers. In order for them to win, someone else had to lose, because there were only so many resources to go around.

But Isaac’s thinking was different. It was revolutionary in that time. It was the idea that there are actually plenty of resources to go around. You just had to keep looking until you found it. So what did Isaac do? He dug another well.

But then another gang of shepherds came along and they took that well too. Isaac again chose the peaceful solution from that well too.

Eventually, the shepherds got tired of fighting over wells and decided to leave Isaac alone. And Isaac said, “There is enough opportunity here for everybody.”

There are two things to be said about the story of Isaac.

The first one is that although Isaac could have fought for the wells, he chose not to. He chose to be at peace with the people around him instead of fighting.

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But the second thing that is important to understand is that Isaac was tenacious. He did not give up. Isaac could have said to himself, “Dang, I guess it’s not God’s will for me to be a successful shepherd.” But he never did. He never gave up until he succeeded.

I’m reminded of a story I heard from a pastor friend of mine when he was doing overseas missionary work. He was living in a land that was ruled by the military police. So he and his friends pitched a great big tent in the city to start a revival and win a lot of people to Christ. As soon as the military police heard of it, they came down to the tent and threatened the missionaries.

“If you pitch that tent, we will destroy it.”

So the missionaries removed their tent and pitched it in another place near the city. Again the military police heard of it and they threatened them again.

“Remove your tent before we burn it!”

The missionaries removed their tent and pitched it again in another part of the city. Finally the military police let them alone and many people got saved during that revival.

What am I saying? I’m saying there’s fire in you. There’s an unquenchable spirit. A desire to never give up. And we call that fire, “faith.” It is the same faith that Isaac had to one day find his well. You have faith that God will provide for the calling he has placed on your life. So never give up on it. Keep pressing on. Keep believing. If one thing doesn’t work, try something else. God sees everything you are doing and he will reward you at the right time.

“Lord, make our faith a flaming fire. 
May it consume everything it touches.”