Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. When we talk but we don’t know what we are talking about, we darken the things around us.
Isiah 55:3: “Incline your ear and come to Me. Hear and your soul shall live.”
In the book of Job, 42::3, God confronts Job because Job had spoken with conviction about things he did not understand. Job was smart enough to realize he didn’t really know what he was talking about.
Knowing this, the Lord said to Job, now prepare yourself like a man and I will question you and you shall answer Me. Job 38:3. What do you think it would be like if God said to you, prepare yourself. I will see how much you really know and how much you really understand.
Let’s incline our ears to hear the Lord just for a moment.
Of all the people in the world at the time, God called Abraham to leave his family and his homeland and to go to the Promised Land. Abraham obeyed God and left without hesitation. Abraham didn’t understand but he obeyed and left his home with only his wife and his Lot and their servants.
In time, Abraham’s servants and Lots servants fought over the availability of sufficient feed grounds for their flocks. Abraham suggested they separate. Abraham allowed Lot to be first to choose the land he wanted. Lot chose the lush green land around Sodom. Abraham went the other way. Why did Abraham give Lot first choice? I don’t know.
Sodom was green but full of evil. So, God destroyed Sodom. But before doing so, He allowed Lot to escape with his wife and their daughters. But only Lot and his two daughters escaped safely from Sodom. Why? I don’t know.
Lot settled on a mountain just a little way from Sodom. His daughters tricked Lot to get them pregnant fearing they would have no children. Lot’s oldest daughter had a son. His name was Moab. He became father of the Moabites. They were relatives of Abraham’s Israelites.
Years later, an Israelite lady named Naomi, and her family left their homeland because of a famine. They went to the land of Moab. While in the land of Moab, Naomi’s husband and sons died. But she had two daughters-in-law while there. One of them was named Ruth. Ruth was a Moabite.
In time, Naomi returned to her homeland. She encouraged her daughters to stay in their homeland of Moab. But Ruth decided she would leave her homeland and go with Naomi. She said where Naomi went, she would go. She would serve the God Naomi served. How come? I don’t know.
Back in Israel, Ruth met a man named Boaz. Boaz was a wealthy and righteous man. The two loved one another so they married. Boaz an Israelite and Ruth a former Moabite. They had a son whose name was Jesse. Jesse was from Bethlehem.
Jesse would go on to have seven sons. His youngest son was named David. David became the first King of God’s choosing for His people. David was also a key ancestor of a man named Joseph who was born in Bethlehem.
Joseph lived in Nazareth and was espoused to be married to a young girl named Mary. Mary and Joseph had to return to Bethlehem where they were born to comply with a census. While there Mary delivered a Son whose name was Jesus. Jesus was the Son of God and the Spiritual son of David.
Jesus left heaven to come to earth. He was the only Spiritual ancestor of King David. Jesus stripped Himself of all that He was so that He could become all that we needed. After He finished His work here on earth, He returned to heaven to sit at God’s right hand and to be an intercessor for you and for me.
All this was set in motion by the obedience of Abraham and by the decision Abraham and Lot made to separate from one another. Lot never returned to his homeland. God knew that would happen.
You and I, by nature, are separated or have been separated from the home the Lord has prepared for us. We need a Spiritual place of birth like Bethlehem. We need a call to return home like Naomi. We need a call to serve the One True God like Ruth.
We need an earthly but Spiritual ancestor like Abraham. We need an earthly Spiritual father who loves the Lord, like David. And we still need a Savior who can make a way for us to get back home when our sinful eyes take us away like it happened with Lot.
Jesus made a way for us to return to our home with Him. He did this way long before we would ever think we needed a way back to anyplace. His knowledge of us is greater than our knowledge of ourselves.
If you think yourself to be knowledgeable, you should think again. We cannot know how things will end for us when we can’t even know how things began for us.
Thank the Lord, because with Him there is no beginning or ending only the here and the now and eternity. Quiet your talk and incline your ear – that means physically take your ear – and bend it towards the Word of God.
Hear all that He says and understand all that He means. You will be able to return to the home you didn’t know you had left for a life you didn’t know you could have. You don’t need to know very much when the Person who knows everything knows you. Quiet yourself and learn to listen loudly to Him.
His ways are not our ways nor are our thoughts His thoughts. Thanks be to God for that.
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