Lesson of Lahai-roi

 Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi. Genesis 25:11

 

"HAGAR had once found deliverance there and Ishmael had drank from the water so graciously revealed by the God who liveth and seeth the sons of men; but this was a merely casual visit, such as worldlings pay to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. 

They cry to Him in trouble, 

but forsake Him in prosperity. 

Isaac dwelt there, and made the well of the living and all-seeing God his constant source of supply....the fact that he there enjoyed fellowship with the living God, had made him select that hallowed ground for his dwelling. 

Let us learn to live in the presence of the living God; 

let us pray the Holy Spirit that this day,

 and every other day, we may feel, 

"Thou God seest me." (Gen. 16:13). 

May the Lord Jehovah be as a well to us, delightful, comforting, unfailing, springing up unto eternal life. The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well, and so has abundant and constant supplies near at hand."

Charles Spurgeon

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