Your Birthright
Selling your rights as a child of God for some pleasure???
There is nothing in life that you and I can face that we can’t get through without the help of God.
Are you willing to lay down your will and your life so that God’s Love can be released through you?
“…because He laid down His Life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.”I John 3:16
“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.” Genesis 25:34
Esau was brother to Jacob. One day he came back from hunting in the fields. He was hungry and tired. His brother Jacob was preparing some stew and Esau asked Jacob for a bowl.
Jacob used this time to negotiate for what seems unimaginable – the family birthright.
Why would Esau take his birthright so lightly?
*** Because he did not understand its VALUE.
Esau here sells his birthright (his place in God’s story) for a cup of soup (sin). Think about that! He sold his glorious role into heaven for a cup of soup!!!
Next time you think about sinning or wronging God, think of this anecdote. Don’t sell your role in God’s story for a merger cup of soup. Don’t sell your ticket to Heaven to sin.
*Jacob shares a common trait shown here-which I saw in myself and probably many others can too— it is the trait of manipulation for personal gain. Trying to look good from the worldly standards for worldly rewards only.
*Every business day countless men and women exchange their birthrights for worldly goods, because they see what the world has to offer as more valuable than what God might offer.
Matthew 6: 21 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
This is not all their fault. Satan has blinded the minds and hearts of men and women for centuries.
He does not want them to know the tremendous gold mine that awaits the child of God.
Their inheritance is filled with meaning, purpose, and rewards that await them both here and in Heaven.
Satan keeps men and women from seeing the real value of their own godly inheritance.
*Our role as a Christian is to be the key that unlocks this prison that keeps so many in captivity.
*You may be the one to reveal the truth that allows them to enter into the inheritance God desires for them.
Proverbs 12:26 The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray.
* Pray that God allows you to see each unsaved person you encounter as one who needs the key you hold in your hand. Then you will add to your own inheritance laid up for you in Heaven.
If we will hold fast to our faith – trusting Jesus, resting in Jesus promises,
rejecting all lies of Satan coming into your mind –– then expect God to come
by His Spirit into your situation and bring an expected end to your particular battle.
God will move heaven and earth to deliver you and make a way. The way out is to trust, trust, trust! “He makes wars to cease” (Psalm 46:9).
2 Chronicles 20:14-15 “The Spirit of God came in the midst of the congregation…saying, Be not afraid nor dismayed…for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
The only way to be obedient is letting go and trusting in what God does in us by His Grace to strengthen us and HEAL our hearts so that we have obedient hearts, not just obedient actions.
Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
1 Peter 1: 3-7. This is for You Today!
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
Thank you Father for choosing me, for seeing me and through your Spirit you sanctified me to obedience to your son Jesus – Lord help me dwell on Your identity. God, You are my shield. My stronghold. My light. My strength. My sustainer. My rescuer. My fortress.
Help me Lord to Meditate on Your perfect attributes. Dwell on Your identity. Adore YOU. Respect YOU. Honor YOU. Love YOU. Exalt YOU. Help me use the rest of my life getting ready to worship our awesome God forever.Amen