Hello! Right now I am in the midst of my class-free J-term. It is very exciting, I have very little that truly have to do during the day. I feel like I have a lot of freedom. It is different for me, but I am enjoying it.
Tonight, I spent some time thinking about Esau…
Esau was a person who had been given a huge honor and place of privilege. Esau was the first born of a Isaac and was given a birthright and promise of blessing, inheritance and place of high honor. God had not chosen him as a part of Christ’s line, and he had not selected him to be the ruler of his family…but I am not sure that God choose to have Esau to completely loose his position in the manner that he did.
The number of steps and circumstances involved in Esau’s life is too long to fully go into detail here, but I believe that the path to his loss if place and identity began in one simple choice. Esau chose to put his comfort over his identity.
Esau literally traded his identity for a meal. Jacob offered him a bowl of food in exchange for his birthright (meaning his place as the firstborn in the family,) and Esau took him up on the offer. He traded something huge for something temporary.
After making that choice, Esau continued to loose pieces of his identity as he married that wrong women and pursued a lifestyle that God had not laid out for him. It all began with his choice.
Esau is very easy for us to judge until we look at our own lives. As children of God, we have been given a birthright that is so much bigger than Esau’s. We have literally been adopted into the personal family of God. We have been redeemed by the real blood of God, and have been filled with the Holy Sprit. Unfortunately, we “Sell” our birthrights everyday. We sell out our positions as Children of God when we use our lives for nothing but our own pleasure. We give in to sin, and sell our hearts to Satan. We waste our time…everyday. We choose to spend the minute that we are given for our own entertainment.
We were given a birthright that has so much more value than we can possibly asses.
Eternity rides on our ability to value our birthrights.
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