Making Wrong Choices

Today's Verse

Genesis 25:33 (NKJV)

Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of this day.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

Read: Genesis 25

Thoughts

Many sufferings faced by many people today are the results of bad or wrong choices in life. Given the opportunity to revert it back, they will say - they will never do the same thing again. It can be buying the wrong car, marrying the wrong person, getting into vices, not wanting good education, and many others that has lifetime impact in our lives. In our text, Esau tripped off into making the bad decision by selling his birthright for a bowl of stew – on the spur of the moment, and therefore losing the thing with lifetime value. You may say, how lame was that? We too can be as lame, when we despise those things that really matters.

We are living in a culture and society pampered with entertainment and easy lifestyle. As though, life is all about getting rich and getting happy, without the sacrifice of work and effort. We get disoriented and make believe on what we see on TV, on the movies, and other means of entertainment. All those are scripted and not real! And suddenly, we find ourselves waking up in the reality of life, and then we get disillusioned.

Birthright in the old days could imply the right to inheritance. If we translate today, it could mean wealth, priority, and power – all waiting for you. If you are flying, or checking in into a hotel, or getting into a line of people – being in the priority always pays a lot! There is a birthright waiting for each one of us, not for an earthly wealth and power but for a more glorious and lasting one. That is getting an inheritance and access to God’s heaven – only through Jesus Christ. An inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade – kept in heaven for you (1 Peter 1:3-5).

How can you get that birthright? Jesus said, you must be born again (John 3:7). The term born again may shun many people away, but what Jesus said – Jesus said, and nobody can change it. And it really shuns people even in Jesus’ time because they can’t get it. It sounded foolish to many people even today, yet it is what it is. The foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom (1 Cor 1:25). You need to be renewed, become brand new, fresh, born again – because birthright cannot be given to your old person!

Jesus is still calling for people to be born again into the Spirit of God (John 3:6). Will you be like Esau, who for the temporary appetite and pleasure of the flesh, exchange that which has lasting value – his birthright? If you are a Christian, are you enjoying temporary pleasures of sin instead of growing in the Spirit? Are you still living in the flesh? Take hold of that which has eternal value – born and live in the Spirit of God.

Prayer

Lord God Heavenly Father, thank You for the birthright we have in Jesus. Help us to live the newness of life in the Spirit. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Honorer le Seigneur Almighty!
(Honor the Lord Almighty! In French)