“And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.”
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. The reopening of the wells is the reclamation of the inheritance — the work of restoring what the previous generation built and what hostile forces have stopped up. The giving of the same names is the act of honoring the heritage: these are Abraham's wells, and Isaac claims them by name. The application: part of the covenant life is the reclamation and restoration of what the previous generation built. The wells of Abraham are worth reopening. What has your generation been asked to reclaim?
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