Genesis 26: 16-20: “And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.”
The Lord blessed Isaac as He had promised Abraham in Genesis 12: 2 (“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:”) Isaac had a great name and the local king understood that when he told Isaac that he was much mightier than they were. However, the Lord also told Abraham that anyone who cursed him or his descendants would be cursed. In this case Abimelech forced Isaac to leave and thus cursed him instead of blessing him. About 400 years later, Abimelech’s descendants were driven out of the land or forced to be slaves because they had done this to Isaac all these years earlier. Of course, these people had a chance to repent of this sin; the Lord let them hear about the great things that He did when He delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt for forty years before they finally came to the Promised Land but they chose to fight rather than submitting to God. This area, in the southern part of Israel, is very dry and water is important. These people believed that if they could stop Isaac from having access to water they would rob him of his riches. The Lord Jesus Christ has promised us access to living water (see John 4: 14 “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”) This well of water that springs up inside people who believe in the Only Begotten Son is living water because it gives everlasting life. However, the great enemy, Satan, seeks to take this living water away from everyone who believes in the Only Begotten Son. If we know the Word of God and read it daily then Satan won’t be able to do this. (compare James 4: 7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”)
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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