As I was driving home I had my phone plugged up to my radio and I had my playlist on shuffle and I have such an array of music, you never know what will play next if it is on shuffle! Lol But One of the ways God communicates with me is by music. Sometimes a song will come on and it will be just like God is talking directly to me!
Tonight the song that came on and struck my heart was Casting Crowns "The Well". I don't know if y'all never heard that but I encourage you to look it up and listen to it and really focus on the lyrics! As the song was playing I remembered the story of Hagar and her son Ishmael. A short paraphrase of the story(totally recommend you reading the whole story starting with Abraham and Sara)
Abraham and Hagar conceived a child named Ishmael, after sometime Sara had Abraham send Hagar and her son away and they got lost in the desert. Abraham gave them some food and water when they left but not enough. Soon after the food and water was gone, Hagar and her young son Ishmael began to get dehydrated and Ishmael began crying constantly. Hagar thought they were going to die in the dessert, so she laid Ishmael beside a bush in the shade because she could not bare to see her son die or her son see her die. She walked and sat down a few yards away from her son and began to pray and cry out to The Lord. I can't remember her exact words but it was along the lines of "God please come and help us. We need water, we need you to guide us. I do not want to see my child die in the desert, Lord I need you." Again-paraphrased a bit. But something then happened that caused Hagar to look up(I believe an Angel had came to her), and a few yards off she saw a Well. A well that had been there but she didn't see.
God was providing for Hagar and Ishmael, He was making sure that they would be taken care of, but they had to seek Him first!
Jesus is the living water of life and He's not just going to come out of nowhere and just give us water before we began to thirst. We have to seek Him, we have to thirst! We have to pray and cry out to God, we have to surrender and know that we can't do this on our own, that we need Him! We have to seek His face for healing, mending, Grace, and Mercy. And He is never late, He is always on time!!
The song says "Those who thirst, will thirst no more. Those who search will find what their souls long for." Then it says "Just leave it all behind, and come to the Well"
Hagar gathered Ishmael and left the bad behind and went to the Well. She laid it down and went to the Well and filled her and her child with water! She searched for God and she found Him.
What do you need to leave behind before you go to the Well?
Seek God, cry out to The Lord. He hears every prayer, from a faint whisper to a scream. He hears you and He is with you!
Praying that God meets you where you are tonight and that you are covered with peace.
-Linds
