At The Well, Destinies Change

In Genesis 24, Abraham sent out the Head servant over his entire household to go find his son Isaac a woman to marry. As he was at the well, in the land of Abraham’s people, Rebekah showed up.

Let’s note what each of the characters represent. The Head servant Eliezer represents Christ. Rebekah represents you. The well represents revelation. The jar represents the Holy Spirit.

Everytime you hear a prompting from God, that’s his invitation to you to come to the well. When we ignore the invitation, we miss out on changing the course of our destinies.

You know why? It’s because every time God invites you to the well, He has already preordained a magnificent event that’s to come your way, and the only way to encounter it is by accepting His invitation.

How could Rebekah have come exactly at that time when the servant had just prayed she came? That’s called preordainment or predestination. This simply means ‘planned out…’

The story goes on. Eliezer had prayed that the lady he meets be the chosen one for Abraham’s son. That’s how it indeed ended. The bible says ‘I see the daughters of men coming to draw water…’

I imagine that there was a time when these ladies’ timetable coincided and all of them went to the well. The daily going to the well was still a preordainment, because God was preparing Rebekah, for the day she’d go for the usual water fetching and get her destiny changed.

What if she’d said ‘no’ to fetching water that day! The daily activity can be translated to our own holy activities. Say, praying daily at 6am or going to church every Sunday, or reading the bible everyday.

God is trying to tell us that we have to keep doing these so well, for sometimes the scriptures may look plain. It’s not everyday we get slain by scriptures. But a day will come, an hour will come…when the jar (the holy spirit) will open your eyes to understand something that will change your life forever!

He invites us to pray at awkward hours, He’d bring a scripture out of the blue, when your mind is far away on a voyage. When this happens, usually a revelation is on the way!

Note also, that being at the well (of revelation) doesn’t mean you have drawn water out of it!

Having your bible under your pillow doesn’t mean you’re reading it. Coming to church doesn’t mean you’re going to encounter God, (Sometimes we get caught up in serving and we miss Him)

Eliezer receiving a drink from Rebekah, represents a dining over a revelation. When we give Jesus a drink, he’s in other words confirming that… ‘Yes, I have weighed this Revelation. I have tasted & tested it. It’s true. Let me show you where to apply it in your life..’

Why does Jesus need a drink? He’s tasting the ingredient. Revelation is like spices in food. Not every spice needs to go to a specific meal. Jesus is trying to guide you where to apply that specific revelation (ingredient) in your food (life)

The moral of the story is for us not to grow weary or familiar with spaces or times when we get to interact with God. Those are all potential wells.

Coming to any of them could change your life. Rebekah’s coming to the well daily got her plain water, but instilled in her a consistency to come daily, which one day led to her meeting of the man who’d lead her to her husband!

She later becomes Jesus’ great great ancestor, and what a pleasure that must have been! Praying & reading the word daily instill in us a consistency as well, which will lead to the same effect Rebekah encountered.

Why Jesus needs to taste it is to show you where to apply what has been revealed to you. That’s why he asked the Samaritan at the well in John 4 to give him a drink!

The end result was that she ran back to call the men of the city and I perceive that in their coming, they were brought to faith…It’s not mentioned what happened in between, but we all know that Jesus couldn’t be around a crowd, and not tell the good news or heal!

I am sure that among those present, a destiny changed. Perhaps a crippled walked, a blind person received their sight back…but it all began with the Samaritan lady coming to the well.

Treasure your meetings with God. Treasure every potential well in your life. Do not familiar with any of them. There, God could bring your Isaac. There God could bring your Rebekah.

There, God could heal that illness. There God could reveal something that will change your life forever! Be aware that all these times you decide to come to the well, Jesus is there, God is there & The Holy Spirit is there.

Lastly, Isaiah 12:3 states Therefore with joy will you draw water from the wells of salvation and Rom 14:17 states that it’s the joy in the Holy Ghost. That’s why the jar represents the Holy Spirit. (Thus it’s with the Joy in the Holy Spirit that we’ll be able to draw from wells of revelations…and not just with any kind of joy)

Be joyful whenever it’s time to come to the well! Be joyful as you play that instrument, be joyful as you sing your worship, be joyful as you fast & pray, be joyful as you flip that bible cover, for Your destiny could change at any of those wells!