Many years ago a magazine published a story about a man who visited a small town on Cape Cod. He bought an old homestead that had fallen into disrepair and planned to improve the property by digging a new well. An elderly farmer, however, who had known the place in its original glory, said, "Why don't you open up the old well? There used to be plenty of good sweet water in it."

The suggestion seemed to be a good one, so the owner told the workmen to clean out the old well. A few days later it began to fill up again with fresh and delicious water.

This account reminded me of the story in Genesis 26. Isaac "dug again the wells" of his father Abraham, which the wicked Philistines had stopped up, and found there the same refreshment as his ancestors had.

I see a spiritual parable in all of this. There is nothing wrong with the old truths of the Bible that our fathers believed and clung to. The world and the devil have tried to clog up our spiritual resources with manmade theories, worldly thinking, and skepticism about the Bible's inspiration.

With the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, let us clean out the ageless wells of truth so that the water may freely flow again. The old wells of biblical truth will satisfy us.  — Henry G. Bosch