“Isaac dwelt at Beer (the Well at) Lahai Roi” (Genesis 25:11)

The first mention of this well in the Bible is when Hagar, the concubine of Abraham, experienced a supernatural vision from God. Hagar called the well, “Lahai Roi”, which means “living vision”. Later, Isaac, the son of Abraham, makes his home at the well. These two events are not a coincidence. Isaac probably heard Hagar tell the story many times of how God had appeared to her at the well. Some people are content with a one-time experience with God, while others “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). 

The Apostle Paul compared the son of Hagar, who was “born according to the flesh”, with Isaac, who was “born according to the Spirit” (Galatians 4:23-29). The sons of flesh can superficially acknowledge “the-God-Who-Sees” (Genesis 16:13), but only the sons of the Spirit decide to give everything to Him unconditionally. The evidence of your salvation is not that you’ve experienced a supernatural manifestation of God, but whether you live with Him. “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God” (1 John 3:10). 

 Christ, (the-God-Who-Sees), met a woman born of the flesh at a well. He told her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13-14). The Scripture gives us hope that she was eventually born of the Spirit. “The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ‘Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’” (John 4:28-29).