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Text: Genesis 30: 37-40

MEDITATION

Genesis 30:37-40

37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.
38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. Jacob’s attempt to influence the birthing of speckled offspring

a. Jacob knew that his own flock was very small.

b. He wanted somehow to cause the ewes to give birth to speckled lambs.

2. The idea behind this plan

a. This attempt was to be made in the mating season.

b. If the ewes were to gaze at speckled plants:

i. Green poplar

ii. Almond and chestnut tree

c. This would cause them to produce speckled offspring.

d. This idea seemed to have worked.

i. There is no scientific evidence to prove that this method actually worked.

ii. This was simply Jacob’s idea of securing a significant flock for himself.

3. God’s grace and power

a. God may not have been mentioned.

b. But the generation of life actually comes from the LORD.

c. He had promised Jacob that He would protect and provide.

d. God blessed Jacob and thus his ewes produced many speckled offspring.
The LORD knew that Laban had been taking advantage of Jacob all this while.

经文：创世记 30：37-40

沉思

《创世记 30：37-40》
37雅各拿杨树、杏树、枫树的嫩枝，将皮剥成白纹，使枝子露出白的来，
38将剥了皮的枝子，对着羊群，插在饮羊的水沟里和水槽里，羊来喝的时候，牝牡配合。
39羊对着枝子配合，就生下有纹的、有点的、有斑的来。

40雅各把羊羔分出来，使拉班的羊与这有纹和黑色的羊相对，把自己的羊另放一处，不叫他和拉班的羊混杂。

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 雅各试图影响有点的小羊的诞生

a. 雅各知道他自己的羊群很少

b. 他要使母羊生出有点的小羊

2. 这个计划的想法

a. 这计划在交配季节进行

b. 如果母羊看着有斑点的植物

i. 杨树

ii. 杏树和枫树

c. 这会使他们生出有斑的小羊

d. 这计划似乎成功了

i. 并没有科学证明这个方式的确有效

ii. 这存粹是雅各想拥有很多羊群的想法

3. 上帝的恩典和大能

a. 上帝或许没有被提到

b. 但是生命的来源实际上归于上帝

c. 祂应允了雅各祂会保守及供应

d. 上帝赐福于雅各，因此他的母羊能够生出许多有斑点的小羊

上帝知道拉班一直在利用雅各。