Every once in a while I post something that is not a
recipe. I’ve decided that when I post
these things that it will be on Wednesdays mostly because I like alliteration
and wanted to call it What I Wearned (learned) Wednesday! Somebody is shaking their head at me right
now, but that’s okay, I’m silly and I know it!
So without further ado, here is the first installment of
What I Wearned Wednesday!
Are you hoping, waiting, and longing for God to bless an
area of your life? Crying out to God to
bless you? Wondering why he hasn’t,
wondering why it is the exact opposite in fact?
You’ve seen glimpses of what life could be; what it seems life
should be, but it seems so far off.
Could it be that there is something in your life that God
can’t bless? Have you given up your
right to that blessing?
What’s that?
Take Esau for example; Genesis 25:29 Once when Jacob was
cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to
Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the
birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath
to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 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.
Esau knew the promise that God had made to make nations and
kings of the lineage of Isaac, and to bless those who bless him, and curse
those who curse him; Esau should have been a great man and a greatly blessed
man, yet Esau forgot all about God’s promises because he could only think of
what would satisfy him at that moment…He literally gave it all away for a bowl
of lentils!
Esau became known as defiled, profane and Godless.
Hebrews 12:17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to
inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he
found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
It came time for Isaac to bestow his blessing before he
died, and I had thought that Esau gave up his right to the blessing when he
sold his birthright because they were supposed to go hand in hand; but it says
that even “though he sought it diligently with tears” (isn’t that just a nice
way of saying that he was throwing himself a pity party?), that it was because of his hardened heart,
which caused him to never repent, that he gave up the right to that blessing. That tells me that God would have given Esau another
chance if he would have taken it!
We can’t change the things that have happened in the past or
that we did in our past, but we can change the outcome when we end the pity party, and take responsibility
for our part. It’s when we repent, turn
from our sins and change our ways that we once again have the right to that
blessing and to those promises that God has for our lives and, and God will do so much more
than we can even imagine!
Ephesians 3:20 Now to
Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by
Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
…and Amen!
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