Don't Sell Your Birthright

Esau weighed the promise of God’s continual presence and blessing against a bowl of soup—and valued the soup more highly. What a revelation of Esau’s character. He was a man who valued the present rather than the future, the material rather than the invisible. The momentary satisfaction of physical desires seemed more important to him than the approval of God. The body, not the spirit, dominated his scale of values.

We must be careful not to let satisfying the desires we have today rob us of spiritual blessings tomorrow. We must not be focused on earthly pleasures but on eternal treasures!

Esau made the foolish decision to take the immediate “payoff” of what he could see, touch, taste, and smell over the much greater blessings in the future. Many people still do that today. Their whole lives are focused on what they can get now, and they end up missing the blessings of tomorrow.