“See that no
one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau,
who for a single meal sold his
inheritance rights as the oldest son.”
Hebrews 12:16
Salvation
through Christ
Testimony
of Christ
Unity
with Christ
Focus
on Christ
Future
in Christ
We sometimes are faced with struggles
and crisis in our lives.
No one is immune.
Too often when that happens we
surrender our S.T.U.F.F. long before we surrender our stuff!
What do I mean?
Faced with a choice we’re quicker to
give up our eternal stuff and hold on to the temporal.
We hand it over without a fight just
as Esau did.
Esau was the firstborn son of Isaac
and as such was the heir to the sacred blessing from father to son.
Esau surrendered the sacred for a bowl
of stew.
His stomach ruled the day, his belly
became his god.
You might say Esau was sold out by
his stomach.
Esau could have had a different
future but his focus changed from what would
be to what he determined he had to have
in the here and now.
Listen to how he expressed his choice
in Genesis 25:28-33
“Isaac, who had a taste for wild
game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Once when Jacob was cooking some
stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. He said to Jacob, “Quick,
let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also
called Edom.)
Jacob replied, “First sell me your
birthright.”
“Look, I am about to die,” Esau said.
“What good is the birthright to me?”
But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.”
So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.”
Esau placed a greater value on a
satisfied stomach (I want it and I want it NOW) than the things of God.
He kept his stuff at the expense of his S.T.U.F.F.
You too will face that same choice in
big and little ways throughout your life.
The most significant tests will come
in those times of crisis.
Ask God to help you in your choices
that you might choose the eternal
things of God over the temporal
things of your flesh.
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