How Deep Is God’s Love

Yael Eckstein  |  November 11, 2026

The barracks hold too many bodies. Too little air. Bodies one on top of the other. Walls closing in.
And at night, the itching never stops.
She is among the others, her back against the rough wood.
A small book rests open beside her.
She reads softly. The words do not belong in a place like this.
A woman nearby shifts, draws closer.
Another lifts her head.
They listen.
The scratching continues. The itching. The coughing. The murmurs of restless sleep.
Still, she reads.
Outside, footsteps move past. Voices rise and fade.
They do not enter.
Inside, the light is small.
But the light remains.
And the words go on.

Genesis 26:18

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.

Some people seem to flourish even in the harshest conditions.

They remind me of a flower blooming in the desert. You wonder: How is that even possible?

Isaac’s life is a testimony to God’s mysterious ways. In the midst of famine, conflict, and hostility, Scripture tells us that Isaac prospered. He planted crops and reaped a hundredfold—not because the land was generous, but because, as the Bible says, “the Lord blessed him.”

And yet, blessing did not mean an easy life.

The Philistines filled in Isaac’s wells—wells that his father Abraham had dug years earlier. Wells that brought life. Wells that should have benefited everyone.

Isaac didn’t receive God’s favor because of his own strength or righteousness. These blessings were the continuation of a covenant—one God had made with Abraham long before Isaac was born. A covenant that still stands today.

We all face our own stopped-up wells. For some, it’s financial pressure. For others, broken relationships, illness, fear, or personal failure. Life, both in Bible times and now, includes struggle.

But the story of Isaac reminds us that God doesn’t disappear in hard times.

There’s a quote that comes to mind when we think about deep wells and deep struggle.

“There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”

Those words were spoken by Corrie ten Boom, a Righteous Gentile who stood with the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Corrie and her Christian family hid Jews from the Nazis—a courageous act that led to imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.

In that place of suffering and despair, Corrie encountered the depths of God’s presence. He was near, and His love reached deeper than the pit.

Corrie ten Boom’s faith didn’t just survive the camps—it was refined there. In the barracks, plagued by fleas, she discovered an unexpected mercy: the guards stayed away. And in that dark place, God’s Word was shared, and His light shined.

No matter how deep the well, know that God’s love goes deeper still.

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