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HELEN SANDERS
8-22-2022
THE EYE GATE
There is a story in Genesis 30 about Jacob. He had worked a total of 14 years for his father-in-law Laban. He asked Laban to give him his wives and children that had been born and let them go. He had served Laban well, and brought increase to his cattle, making it a multitude. Laban asked him in Genesis 30:31, “What shall I give thee?” He told Laban that he did not need to give him anything but to do one thing for him and he would continue to feed Laban’s flock.
The one thing he asked was in verse 32, “I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.” He went on to say that when he would leave that the spotted and speckled sheep and goats would be his. Laban agreed to it.
Then Jacob did something very interesting. He removed all the speckled and spotted animals from Laban’s flock and gave his sons charge over them. He set them three days’ journey from Laban and the rest of the flocks. Then Jacob took rods made of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree and peeled back some of the bark, which put stripes and spots on them. He set these peeled rods in the area where the sheep and goats drank water, and miraculously, the animals conceived young that were speckled, spotted, and brown. He also took the ones that were born weak and put them in Laban’s herd making his cattle weak.
This caused Jacob to become very fruitful in his increase of all the animals and in servants, and when he left Laban, he was very wealthy in his animals. Verse 43 says, “And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.” Jacob’s plan worked.
This story leads us to this: what we look at in the natural will be conceived in our lives if we look at it long enough. If we look at things of the world, including X-rated movies, pornography, violence, and ungodly things, eventually they will take root in us, and we will birth them. If we allow things of discouragement to always be before our eyes, we will stay discouraged. Whatever it is that we dwell on will eventually take root in us and bring forth fruit (things) we will regret having.
We must be very careful what we allow into our eye gates because it will either bless us or curse us.
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