![]() ![]() "Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. All life in Jerusalem flowed from that well. The Gihon well was the wellspring of life. Years later, to ensure the security of the water supply, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, dug a tunnel to the spring outside Jerusalem so that even during a siege the city would have a secure water supply. Without water, a city would fall to siege in a short time. He would need to ensure that the spring and the pools and cisterns were well-guarded. Assyria is about to lay siege to Jerusalem and King Ahaz goes out to inspect the city's water supply. Isaac would dig another and Abimelech would take it by force. Isaac would dig a well and Abimelech's men would take it by force. In Genesis 21 and 26, we can read of the conflicts between Abraham and Isaac's herdsmen and those who worked for Abimelech. Wells and springs have an important function in a land where there are no rivers. In ancient times water was collected and stored in cisterns or drawn from deep wells. This river flows down a deep valley far below the farmlands of Israel. In Israel, there are no rivers that flow year-round, except for the Jordan which flows from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. Those who still have some water for their farms understand that it is a precious commodity. The fields are barren, the cattle thirsty, wildfires rage through tinder dry forests. Though in some areas irrigation is available for thousands of acres of farmland, vast areas of land have no water. The fields are parched and the cattle are being sold off because there is no water for them. Each day the local newspapers tell us of farms whose wells and dugouts are drying up. ![]() There’s not a trace of them left in the affairs of this earth.In southern Alberta this year, we are experiencing the worst drought in decades: a drought of severity, some say, not seen since the dirty thirties. Their loves, their hates, yes, even their dreams, are long gone. But the dead know nothing and get nothing. Still, anyone selected out for life has hope, for, as they say, “A living dog is better than a dead lion.” The living at least know something, even if it’s only that they’re going to die. Is it any wonder that so many people are obsessed with evil? Is it any wonder that people go crazy right and left? Life leads to death. I find this outrageous-the worst thing about living on this earth-that everyone’s lumped together in one fate. It’s one fate for everybody-righteous and wicked, good people, bad people, the nice and the nasty, worshipers and non-worshipers, committed and uncommitted. Here’s what I understood: The good, the wise, and all that they do are in God’s hands-but, day by day, whether it’s love or hate they’re dealing with, they don’t know.Īnything’s possible. Well, I took all this in and thought it through, inside and out. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and aft Also, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they go This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they This evil is in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and af This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. But any This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after th This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. So people’s minds are full of evil and foolish thoughts while they live. There This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, a This is something wrong that happens here on earth: What happens to one happens to all. Already twisted by evil, people choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their live It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Here’s what I understood: The good, the wise, and all that they do are in God’s hands-but, day by day, whether it’s love or hate they’r This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all men. Ecclesiastes 9:3-6 Well, I took all this in and thought it through, inside and out.
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