Joyful Wells | Sharing Cups of Water

We rely on history books to inform us of any past events before we were born. To truly understand the past before us, we also rely on honest people to tell the tale or we must receive an inspired retelling of events from heaven.   From accurate scriptural stories and inspired retellings, it’s clear that God’s people must continually and faithfully serve Him to merit His blessings and divine justice in their favor. If they do not, God  stirs  up the people in a way that causes them to remember Him.  This is abundantly clear. Example after example has been given to us. So much so that I’ve been humbled and made to fear (in the right sense of the word) the Lord God.  For example: “So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed. And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord said unto him, Stop now your hand, it is enough; for the people rep

The Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Despite what the many false and foolish teachers say, we actually have to obey Him and walk in His ways continually. Nothing less will bring us the satisfaction we (and the Lord God) seek.  Doing what He asks - precisely how He asks - is how we follow Him and become like Him. And if we want to be where He is, we must seek to be like Him.  “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me, and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. Therefore, the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight.” - 2 Sam 10:6 There are many reasons to think otherwise. There are enough voices in our own lives that try and justify why the countless