Today’s Devotion
Topic: Choose Wisely!
Text: Gen 25: 29- 34
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.) 31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?” 33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright. Amen
Hunger is not a thing to joke with. It makes mighty men look weak and feeble. They take decisions and make compromises that they later regret. The only thing that satisfies a hunger is food, food and more food.
Birthright on the other hand, is a special privilege given by God for inheritance. In the days of old, it was a privilege reserved for first born sons to inherit the “Abrahamic” blessings from their fathers. In this New Testament era, it is the privilege of our new birth in Christ. That is, the privilege to inherit all the Abrahamic blessings because we have been born again in Christ.
Food may be so important to the hungry man but the birthright of a believer is more precious. It makes us heirs of the Father and joint heirs with Jesus. Unfortunately, most of us gladly trade this glorious privilege of partaking in the divine nature of God here on earth for food, food and more food.
We compromise at work, school and even at home just to satisfy our greed. We lie, steal and cheat our way through everything just to get more than enough to satisfy hunger. Each time we despise our birthright in Christ, we deny ourselves the blessings and inheritance that comes with it as well. Yet, it is this blessing (of the Lord) that makes us rich and He adds no sorrow to it. No wonder our whole living has been reduced to the slogan “hand to mouth”.
So the next time you feel tempted to trade godliness for that which satisfies physical hunger, remember there’s a higher calling than that. A place in Christ where we get to inherit all that the Father has provided for our living here on earth, with eternal life granted as bonus.
Food is not everything Precious One, give your life to Christ- be born of the Water, Spirit and the blood and inherit all that pertains to righteousness, that automatically USHERS YOU INTO THE ABUNDANCE OF GOD.
Begin to pray now. Don’t live for your stomach alone, live for eternity- choose God, not food!
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