The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 29:10,
“When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.”
We are told in this account that the stone on this well was large, verse 2. The several shepherds already at the well with their flocks of sheep were waiting for the other shepherds to arrive to open the well so they could water their sheep. When Rachel shows up at the well to water her sheep we are told Jacob rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well himself and watered his uncle’s sheep.
Far be it from me to draw allusions in Scripture where none exist, but I can’t help but think here of the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. There Jesus told her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” She responds with a question, “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?” Jesus goes on to tell her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Just as Jacob did the “heavy lifting” and provided water for his uncle’s sheep, so Jesus Christ did the heavy lifting and provides us “living water” to satisfy a thirst nothing else can quench. Again, I say that I don’t know the purpose of the account of Jacob providing water to his uncle’s sheep was to foreshadow or picture Jesus Christ’s provision of “living water” to us. But nonetheless that is where my thoughts go this morning. If it were not for our merciful loving Savior, we all would be like sheep lying in our thirst and exhaustion, dying at the side of a well that couldn’t be accessed. But provide he does! What is it about the heart of our God that causes him to reach out to us, to all of us who rightly deserve his judgment and condemnation? The kindness and graciousness of our God is beyond all measure and all comprehension!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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