We all know the scriptures about “reaping and sowing.” This is one of God’s laws, which cannot be broken.
When you give, you will always “receive back, pressed down, shaken together and running over… For with the same measure that ye mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38
Jacob really learned this valuable lesson several times over in his life. His first real lesson came when he devised a way to have his brother Esau sell his birthright to him for a pot of porridge. Gen. 25:29-34
Years go by and Jacob’s father Issac, who was getting ready to die, pronounced a “birthright” on each of his sons… His older son, Esau, would get the larger, bigger birthright because he was the oldest, and Jacob would get what was left over.
Fast forward to Genesis chapter 27, and Issac is getting ready to die and he calls for his oldest son Esau. But his wife Rebecca, the mother of these two young men, loves Jacob more and she feels he should get the “birthright.” So she leads her son into putting some goat skin on his arms and neck, so that his father (who was nearly blind) would feel the arms and neck of his son, and therefore think that this was Esau.
It worked, and Issac pronounced the biggest blessing on Jacob, because of this deception. When Esau found this out, he was after “Jacob’s hide,” and Jacob had to “get out of Dodge fast!”
A little while passes by and after a long journey, he comes to the town where his uncle Laban lives. Laban has daughters… one of them, Rachael, had come to take care of her father’s sheep. But, there was a huge stone there that had to be rolled away, in order to water the flocks. Strong and good-looking Jacob moves this rock for the beautiful Rachael.
She is so beautiful that “he kissed her and lifted up his voice and wept!” It is “love at first sight.” Since he has no dowry, he agrees to work seven long years for Rachael.
Wedding Night… “What You Reap, You Will Sow.” Now, seven long years have gone by and Jacob has worked hard to win Rachael as his wife. As soon as all the partying is done, Jacob takes his bride, whom he thinks is Rachael, who is “all covered from head to toe with all kinds of bridal gear” into his tent. He goes to bed with her, thinking this is Rachael.
But in the morning, it was “pay-back time.” Rachael’s uncle had tricked Jacob and he had actually married Leah, the other sister!!! Wow!!!! That is what I call “pay-back!” He now has to work seven more years to get Rachael!
“What we reap we sow.” If we deceive someone, someone else will deceive us! If we are kind to people, they will be kind to us… If we are stingy, God will be stingy with us! But when we give, God will give back 100-fold.
God has a law of “Reaping and Sowing.” So, be sure to sow the good seed!!!
Sherry