Dinner with The AlchemisT- A Blog Series, Part 3
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Thank you for taking the stroll with The Road2Wholeness Blog today and a Happy Holidays to you!! You've landed in "Dinner with The AlchemisT", a 3-Part series. We invite you to check in on the blog and to begin at the beginning with this series. Today we look at a specific segment of the life of Jacob; a definite Alchemist.
In the Bible there are many examples of God as AlchemisT, but for this miraculous transformation, we go then to the book of Genesis.
Jacob is the son of Issac whose name becomes a part of God's identity. In Exodus 3:6 God says to Moses, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob." In this story taken from Genesis, Jacob has struck out unto his own away from his father's house to find himself a wife. At the end of his struggle to secure the woman he wanted as his wife and after years of bringing great fortune to his uncle Laban, Jacob asks the question.. "But now, when may I do something for my own household?"
Jacob has reached the end of being indebted to his uncle, and is ready to be his own man. In this chapter of Jacob's ongoing fight with Alchemy, he devises his way, and makes a stunning laboratory of his circumstance.
In Chapter 30, he declares, "Don't give me anything. .. But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. And honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen."
In verse 37-39 it says, "Jacob, however took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted." Thus, he makes a flock for himself.
But was it his uncle's deceit or the Lord's promise to Jacob on his way to his uncle's land in Chapter 29, "Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. .. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." that proves to be Jacob's great confidence?
Let's add it all to the flask however.
And in the end, to bless Jacob with peace and to give his alchemy true security, the Lord let's it be that his wife Rachel would steal from her father and cause him to come after Jacob. In this, the Lord allows a formal parting of ways between Jacob and Laban with many witnesses to all that had become Jacobs.
In Chapter 31 it reads, "May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. .. remember that God is a witness between you and me."
With this, we recognize 1Thessalonians 5:23 "Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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