lessons from Esau.
“And the Lord replies, 'This is how I showed my love for you: I have loved your ancestor Jacob, but I rejected his brother Esau, and devastated his hill country. I turned Esau's inheritance into a desert for jackals'” -Malachi 1:2-3
I was reading this the other day during my Jesus time and was thoroughly confused to be honest.
Going all the way back to Genesis (Genesis 25:27-34 to be exact), Esau was basically bribed by Jacob to give up his birthright for some stew. And then Jacob also goes on to trick Isaac to get this incredibly anointed blessing, which was also Esau's to have. So..why on earth would God say how much he loved Jacob but he rejected Esau?
Then it got me thinking.
Esau (in theory) was supposed to receive this incredible inheritance. This blessing was kind of a big deal, It wasn't just inheriting land and pigs and stuff. Christ himself would eventually be in the lineage of this one family. And Esau, in his hunger gave up this unbelievably anointed blessing for some soup. I'm sure it was hard to resist temptation because of his hunger and everything, but nonetheless he still decided to give it up.
Then it really got me thinking.
“For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory.” -Romans 8:16-17
How many times do we do that? Give up our inheritance in seeing God's glory for meaningless fleeting things, like soup? Or even things like sleep or watching tv or whatever else that we put in front of God so easily everyday.
So this is my prayer, that I won't give up my inheritance so easily. That I can chase after God's glory and seek him with all that I am, regardless of what my flesh tells me to do. I don't want to settle for earthly trinkets when I can have Heavenly treasure.
Please let me know how I can be praying for you! Love you all.
