Re-Digging The Wells of Our Forefathers

This has been a long journey. After 10 years of wrestling with God's call on my life I have found the place of total surrender. I bowed my knee and I submitted. This was not easy. In fact it was a painstaking road. Yet, I have purposed in my heart that I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing.

I am now walking in the midst of a destiny that I had shyed away from. I am not sure what I was so afraid of, now that I am here, sitting at the feet of the Lord and saying "Here am I send me..."

It was almost a surreal experience to show up on the campus of Christ For the Nations and look around and the multitudes of people who were on this same journey of walking out the call of God on their life. Adam McCain took the podium and poured out a prophetic word for the student body concerning Isaac re-digging the wells of his father.

Genesis 26:18
Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the
days of his father Abraham; for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names that his father had given them.

As I listened to Adam's message I was pierced through by the Holy Spirit. I remembered the joy of my salvation experience and the fresh living water that once flowed so freely from my life. Yet somewhere on the journey my well had been filled in with dirt, debris, cement and rendered unusable. I confess, I wrestled with God long and hard over being called to the ministry. I had well meaning friends who were zealous in telling me that I did not hear God correctly because my place as a Christian woman was in my home raising children. I never doubted my call as a wife and mother, but that God was also calling me to something in addition to those duties was hard to deny. So in my years of resisting the Lord in this area, I inadvertantly filled my own well up with debris to the point of rendering it void for the purpose it was created...to bring living water.

As the message went forth, I felt a true repentance in my heart for the years I had resisted the Lord. I knew that the job before me was going to be tough. It was time to re-dig that well! I will have to get my hands dirty and expend physical labor to remove the debris...but praise God...I can hear the running water again!

I am determined now, more than ever, that my life will be forever open to my Redeemer to do with as he wills. I know I will never be able to please my friends who dont understand my calling, but I have gotten to the point that their voices are just faint memories now. I can clearly hear God calling me by name.
I don't exactly know where this journey will take me, but I completely trust my Savior who is leading me.

So join me on my journey. Maybe you have some wells that need to be dug up again too.
Dawn