Keep Digging

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Friday morning the 2nd of June, 2023 and this is your friend Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we start in Numbers 21:17:

“Spring up, O well!
All of you sing to it"

Then we go straight to Isaiah 33:22:

For the Lord is our Judge,
The Lord is our Lawgiver,
The Lord is our King;
He will save us;

Then just over the page to Isaiah 35:6:

For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.

Are you going through a barren desert time at the moment in your life, my dear friend? Well, the Lord's got a word for us. He says: "Keep digging your well". "But Lord, it's so dry, we're in the middle of the desert". "Keep digging your well". Jesus says in Matthew 5:6, 

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled".

I remember it like yesterday. We arrived on that farm that we bought, now called Shalom, and it was just a piece of bush. There were no houses, there were no facilities, there was no electricity. There was nothing. It was just barren land. We had no water and I found a damp patch, that's all it was, in a low-lying area. With a pick and shovel and with a couple of helpers we started to dig right on that damp spot and we dug down 8 feet, I remember clearly. Eventually, we were lowering ourselves down with a rope it was like we were going into a mine, we just kept on digging I never thought we would get anything and then all of a sudden out of the side of a rock started trickling a beautiful, clear spring. The water gurgled up. We nurtured it lovingly and it grew stronger and stronger and stronger until we had a water supply for our little house. I want to tell you something today, we have no less than four, small dams that originated from that little spring that we dug in the wilderness. 

Today, the Lord says to you: "Keep digging your well and you will receive water to quench your thirst". Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, goodbye.