Make Your Dinner

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 am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom, which means "red" in Hebrew.) Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now." Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright 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 Esau despised his birthright. Genesis 25:29-34

Too often we look at the short term. Esau said he was about to die. Dude, that's why he was eating. He needed food, or yes, his physical body would eventually die. Why didn't he stop and think about the fact that if he ate some food, he would live?

When you are spiritually exhausted, don't just sit there. That is when the enemy's offers will come. And they will be so tempting. You think they will fill you, but they won't. That single meal will only satisfy for a little while.

Esau is known for despising his birthright. Do you want to despise God, and the birthright He has given you? From inner most part of your hearts, you know you don't want to do that! Not at all!

So...

Get up and make your own dinner! Press into God! Spend time in His Presence! Talk to Him. Eat your spiritual food, because then you will live!

I read once that when you don't feel like reading your Bible, do it anyways. When you don't feel like praying, do it anyways.

Those are the times when you need to pray and be in God's Word more then ever.

---Joy