Excerpt from 'Look Unto Me' (Saved to have a CLOSE relationship with God)

Isaac ... lived near Beer Lahai Roi. (Genesis 25:11)

From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:

Hagar had once found deliverance at this well, and Ishmael had drunk from the water that God, who "looks down and sees all mankind" (Ps. 33:13), had so graciously revealed. But Hagar and Ishmael's visit was merely a casual visit, the kind people extend to the Lord only during their times of need and only when it serves their purposes. They cry out to Him in times of trouble but forsake Him in times of prosperity.

Yet Isaac lived there and made this well of the living, all-seeing God his constant source of supply. The usual tone of a person's life, or the condition of his soul, is the evidence of his true nature. Perhaps it was the providential visit experienced by Hagar that led Isaac to revere this place or perhaps it was its spiritual name--the well of the Living One who sees me--that endeared it to him. His frequent times of evening meditation by its side had make him familiar with the well, and the fact he had met Rebecca there made his spirit feel at home by it. But best of all it was primarily that he enjoyed fellowship with the living God there that he selected this holy ground to be his home.

Let us learn to live in the presence of the living God and pray through the Holy Spirit that this and every day we may sense, "You are the God who sees me" (Gen. 16:13). May the Lord Jehovah be a well to us--delightful, comforting, unfailing--and "a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14). As created beings our reservoir dries up and eventually cracks, but the well of the Creator never fails.

Happy is the person who lives by the well, having an abundant and constant supply close at hand. The Lord is a sure supply of help, for His name is El Shaddai--the all-sufficient, almighty God. Our hearts have often enjoyed the most delightful fellowship with Him and through Him our soul has found its glorious Husband, the Lord Jesus. "In him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). For this reason may we dwell in the closest fellowship with Him as possible.

Glorious Lord, may You cause us to never leave You, but to live by the well of the living God.

From the pen of Jim Reimann:

Beer Lahai Roi, or "the well of the living One who sees me," is deep in the Negev desert. Although it appears to be "god-forsaken," it is the very place the Lord saw Hagar, pregnant and running away in fear. It was here He appeared to her, promising, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count" (Gen. 16:10).

The prophet Elijah also ran in fear "a day's journey into the desert ... and prayed that he might die. 'I have had enough, LORD,' he said. 'Take my life'" (1 Kings 19:4). Yet it was here in the desert he heard the Lord's "still small voice" (v. 12 KJV).

How often do we too run to the desert before hearing the Lord! Why is it that it often takes just that for our ears to be opened? Yet "we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor. 5:7 KJV). "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it'" (Isa. 30:21)

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