Numbers 21:16-17 From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.” Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it.
Springs are underground waterbeds coming out or spouting out naturally. Water pressure underground causes the water to push through the cracks and crevices and make its way to the surface. Gravity and pressure will move the water underground through the gaps in the rocks to spring up as waterspouts.
While the redeemed Hebrew slaves were making their way to the Promised Land through the wilderness they totally depended on the Lord for the provision of food and water. While their daily divine meals, Manna, showered from heaven every morning, the Lord made the dry ground open up and spring forth water for the people and the cattle to drink. After living under God’s divine provision for 39 years in the desert, in this instance, the Israelites sang a song of gratitude in their drought. They didn’t whine about the peril but they sang a song to the problem. Sing of this well, which princes dug, which great leaders hollowed out with their scepters and staffs” (vs 18a). Bible Scholars believe that Moses made tiny holes with his staff and water erupted from the ground. The Lord heard the song of gratitude and made fresh sweet streams of water bubble up in the dry desert.
The gravity of gratitude erupts as thanksgiving, praise and worship and inundate our lives with divine provision and providence. Gratitude cannot be contained. Gratefulness cannot be suppressed. It will surge out as songs and spread the fragrance of God’s goodness around us. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul” – Henry Ward Beecher.
Gratitude turns sighing into singing and gushes out as songs of praise and thanksgiving.
1. Pressure: Underground pressure is required to push water to the surface. Under pressure use the force as gravity to sing songs for praise. The human heart is exposed under pressure. A grateful heart will only gush out the goodness of God even in intense pressure.
2. Problem: Israel did not speak about the problem but they sang to the dry ground, “Spring up, O well!” The majority of groundwater aquifers lay 100 feet below ground zero. The water which would have been hundreds of feet below the land surface in the dry desert heard the songs of praise and sprang up. Don’t sigh; sing to the problem.
3. Praise: Songs of thanksgiving and praise draws the grace and mercy of God to spring up like fresh water over the dead and dry issues. Talking about the emptiness, lack or dryness will make us weary but gratitude will gravitate to us blessings and the breakthroughs.
Under the pressure of the peril, choose to sing songs of thanksgiving. Praise will propel the problem into a prospect.
Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Prayer: Dearest Lord Jesus, give me the tenacity to praise you even under intense pressure and use the problem as a prospect to see your might and power. Amen.
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