We Dig Wells

Hi Friend —

Last week I sent an email that sparked a wave of frustration. Hard to tell exactly what the trigger was. Maybe my comments on the recent clean sweep for Democrats in the election. Maybe the lack of prosecutions related to everything that happened in the 2020 Election. Maybe just the general frustration of the times.

In any case, I understand. I feel the strain of these days too — the sense that truth is slipping, justice is delayed, and our nation is drifting into something unrecognizable. There is anger in the air, and not without cause.

But yesterday something happened that brought me back to center, and I want to share it with you.

On Tuesday, I attended a ministry event, where I had the privilege of witnessing a pastor and father pass on the mantle of a great work to his son. In the course of his comments, the father spoke about wells, referred to time and again in Scripture — how God used them to sustain His people, mark His promises, and carry His legacy forward.

As I listened, I felt the Lord telling me, 'This is for you. This is for your nation. In this season. Pay attention.'

True the Vote has never been just talk. We are a community. We care deeply. And in days like these, letting off steam around the "proverbial water cooler" is understandable. We can handle it. We get the frustration, grief, even righteous anger. It’s good to be honest. It’s healthy to vent.

But we cannot give up. We cannot quit the work of digging. Because a people who stop digging wells — who stop preparing, building, investing, shaping — will one day look for water and find none. And that is how a people die.

Scripture says plainly: “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6). And part of knowledge is knowing when God is calling us to pick up the shovel.

In Genesis, Isaac reopened the wells his father Abraham had dug, only to find them filled with dirt by the Philistines. “And Isaac dug again the wells of water… and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.” (Genesis 26:18)

Every time the enemy tried to choke off the source, God’s message was the same: Dig again. And Isaac did. Again and again, until water flowed.

There’s something in that for us.

A shallow well is easy work. It collects water quickly, but without structure it collapses. Anyone can toss in dirt and muddy it up. Anyone can foul it. It’s the kind of well built by people who want water but not the work. Convenience without commitment.

But the deep wells — the lasting wells — are different. They require excavation, shaping, lining the walls with stone, sealing the gaps with mortar. Hard work. Intentional work. Work done with purpose and love.

Those stones lining the walls are the programs we build, the systems we strengthen, and the vigilance we keep.

And the mortar that holds it all together — is love. The love Paul speaks of when he writes, “Above all these virtues, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (Colossians 3:14)

At True the Vote, our calling has always been to dig the wells that help citizens support our elections. The kind of deep, sustaining work that keeps the whole system from running dry. To construct programs, tools, and safeguards, stone by stone, that hold water.

I know you’re angry. I know you’re tired. I know the voices calling for conflict are getting louder.

But the choice before us is as old as Scripture: War or wells.

And right now, in this season, I believe we are called to dig.

To dig deep. To dig with intention. To dig in unity, so that what we build endures.

Some will say digging isn’t enough. It's not fast enough. It's not fierce enough. But Scripture is clear: the people who dug wells were the people who endured. The people who prepared.

If one day war becomes the only option, we will know it. And we will be ready — not because we shouted the loudest, but because we built the strongest. And we built together.

So for now, I am picking up my shovel. I am choosing to build. And I’m asking you to build with me.

Wells that deliver living water and lasting freedom.

Deep digging has never been the work of the fainthearted. It belongs to those with steady hands and clear eyes. And that is you. That is us. I know it in my bones, now is the time to dig as deeply as we can.

Thank you for your faith, your grit, your hope. These too are stones. Love is the mortar.

And together, together, we will build as many wells as it takes.

And we will never quit.

May God strengthen all of us for the road ahead, and may He continue to bless our beautiful America — for our children and for their children — until all the work He’s entrusted to us is finally complete, for our good and His glory.

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Ever onward, with lots of mortar —

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