There is a great tendency among Christians today to magnify special places and events which have been associated with times of blessing, and to obtain from them a supply of spiritual refreshment which they store up for the days to come. But so many of these are in danger of forgetting that instead of making an annual "pilgrimage to the well," they might as well make their abode beside it, and live there.

The water of that well speaks of the life of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord and is stored up for us in the fathomless depths of the Word of God. The well is deep, yet faith's bucket can reach its precious contents and bring them to the thirsty lip and yearning heart.

One of the greatest blessings that can come to the soul is to acquire the habit of sinking wells into the depth of the Word and to draw water for itself. We are too much in the habit of drinking water which others have drawn, and too little initiated into the sacred science of drawing for ourselves.

It is my growing conviction that if Christians would not attempt to read so many chapters of the Bible daily, but would study what they do read more carefully, turning to the marginal references, reading the context, comparing Scripture with Scripture, endeavoring to get one or more complete thoughts of the mind of God, there would be a greater richness in their experience, more freshness in their interest in Scripture, more independence of men and means, and more real enjoyment of the Word of the living God. Oh for a practical realization of what Jesus meant when he said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14).

Oh, my readers, open your hearts to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Rest content with nothing short of a deep and loving knowledge of the Bible. Ask that within you there may be a repetition of the old miracle, "Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it" (Numbers 21:17). Then "in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water" (Isaiah 35:6,7).

—F.B. Meyer