Welcome to One Minute Scripter Study, a Come Follow Me podcast.

We are your host, Kristen Walker Smith and Kelly Black.

Hey friend, grab your scriptures and let's dive into Genesis 25, verse 31 and 34.

So a few years ago, my son told me about this new Lego set that he wanted more than anything in the

world. And I reminded him how he'd said the last Lego set he bought would be the one that would

finally make him happy forever. Now, he's a cool kid, and he laughed. He's like, you know what,

you're right, Mom. I guess I'll never have enough Legos. And we're all guilty of doing the same

thing. We hope and we dream

for something, but once we have it, it becomes almost commonplace and expected. Esau was Isaac's

firstborn son, and he would inherit the major portion of Isaac's possessions when his father died.

However, one day Esau returned home completely famished.

He happened upon his younger brother Jacob and begged him for some food.

Jacob replied, sell me this day thy birthright.

To the astonishment of every reader and possibly Jacob as well, Esau traded his birthright

for a bit of food.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and potage of lentils, and he did eat and

drink and rose up and went his way. Thus, Esau despised his birthright. It's possible that Issa

was so comfortable in the blessing of his birthright that he had forgotten what a great gift it was.

Are we guilty of doing the same? Are there blessings we have that we

once prayed long and hard for, but we now take them for granted? Maybe today we could spend

some time expressing gratitude for long hoped for blessings that we now take for granted. So the takeaway

of the day in five words or less is, don't take blessings for granted.

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