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Genesis chapter 25 versus 29 through 34.

Once when Jacob was cooking stew,

Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted.

And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew,

for I'm exhausted.

Therefore his name was called Edum.

Jacob said, sell me your birth right now.

Esau said, I'm about to die of what use is a birth right to me.

Jacob said, swear to me now. So he swore to him and sold his birthright to

Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus he saw despised his birthright.

Oh there's so much we could talk about in this passage. But the bottom line that I want to lead us to

pray in light of is Esau in his desperation, his hunger for food, was willing to sell his birthright for what what for a bowl of soup he exchanged his birthright for a bowl of soup, something so valuable his birthright, something so

weighty and really in a sense wonderful for something so

waiting for something so temporary and light and trivial.

Now, the thing is it obviously seemed like a huge deal to him at that moment.

Like I'm hungry.

And I want, I need some food now. Yet could he have not waited like just a few more hours, like just a little bit longer,

even another day if necessary, in order to hold on to his birthright.

And in this story, I want us to see a picture of our own lives, how we are all prone to let

go of things that are valuable for that which is trivial,

to let go of things that are eternal for things in this world that are temporary and specifically to see how

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