God… are you there? Do you ever ask yourself that same question? Maybe you don’t because your so wrapped up in the fast paced world in which each of us lives. And yet, we do ask God where he is, but then we only give Him 5 seconds to respond. When all we hear is His silence, we whisk away to the next thing and leave God hanging on the doorsteps of our hearts. We want the God of this day an age, this century. Yet, scripture tells us He is same yesterday, today and forever. We look around and we see that the world in which the disciples lived and walked is not the same as today. Or furthermore the world in which Moses, King David, or the many prophets lived is so different than today. The reality is that their fast paced world is just different than our version of fast paced world. We the creation made by God and for God are the ones that have changed over the years. God has remained the constant. He has remained in the same spot, waiting to be invited into our little kingdoms.

Where do we go to find God? We can find God anywhere and everywhere. He is at work in our lives in every moment. We wrestle with God daily. We deny that we wrestle with Him, but we do wrestle with Him. I find God when I go to the well. When I sit still long enough to be brought to a place where my thirst is quenched and the wrestling can end. These two parallels: Going to the well and wrestling with God. I don’t think its a coincidence that Jacob’s well is the place in which Jesus met the Samaritan woman and taught her about the living water. Jesus didn’t just offer her living water, he called her into repentance, he called her out on her sin. She also wrestled with Jesus right there at the well. It’s at the well that God meets us and reveals to us our sin, just as He did to the Samaritan woman, and just as he did with Jacob. The Samaritan woman wrestled with God about her sin, and tried to divert Jesus away from that topic. Don’t we many times try to divert God form our sins. Don’t we fight going to the well to meet Jesus because its at the well that we come to grips with ourselves.

Our sin doesn’t just separate us from God, it slivers a divide between us that grows in its darkness and the longer it sits in the darkness the more we begin to believe its not a sin, or the more we begin to rationalize it, and defend it. And this is the place the enemy wants us. The enemy wants to isolate us because when he isolates us, he can do the most damage to us. But if we bring ourselves to the well, to the place where we fall on our knees before the Most High God and surrender our will, our desires, and face our sin we will find healing. We will wrestle with God here. We will wrestle. Proverbs 28:13 says “whoever conceals their sins does not prosper but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy”  Somedays, when we are the well meeting with Jesus, we are again wrestling with him… we are wrestling with Him because what we have handed over to be forgiven we have taken back. Have you ever done that? Have you ever asked to be forgiven yet still harbor the resentment for your actions. God has forgiven you, yet you haven’t forgiven yourself? Galatians 5:1 says “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery”

So at the well, where we meet Jesus, where we find healing, we also experience restoration. Jesus is always at the doorsteps of our heart waiting for us to invite Him in, waiting for us to meet Him, and waiting for us to open the door. And when we finally fall before Him, the wrestling can end and the peace can begin. You can be free, free indeed. We must stubbornly refuse to go back into the bondage of the past. We must go to the well and meet Jesus. We must go to the well, so that we will never thirst again.