The Lord Be With You Today!
Genesis 25:34b
So Esau despised his birthright.
(As the first-born, Esau's great privilege was to receive
not just an equal inheritance to be divided with his brother Jacob,
but an actual double portion of the inheritance from his father Isaac.
As a man of action and an accomplished hunter,
he thought he had no need of a blessing from his father.
He assumed he could fend for himself,
depend on his own skills and abilities, and lived for the moment.
How like Esau we are today.
We try to depend on ourselves rather than the Lord,
Genesis 25:34b
So Esau despised his birthright.
(As the first-born, Esau's great privilege was to receive
not just an equal inheritance to be divided with his brother Jacob,
but an actual double portion of the inheritance from his father Isaac.
As a man of action and an accomplished hunter,
he thought he had no need of a blessing from his father.
He assumed he could fend for himself,
depend on his own skills and abilities, and lived for the moment.
How like Esau we are today.
We try to depend on ourselves rather than the Lord,
we feel we don't need His intervention except in an emergency,
and we live for the moment, for the present.
We continue to disregard the Lord's great inheritance to us today
by living beneath our privileges,
by not receiving what the Lord has given us and spoken over us,
by ignoring or only giving lip-service to the truths
of who the Lord says we are in Him.
The Lord lavishes on us a great birthright today,
an inheritance that gives us a double portion,
an inexhaustible measure of His presence,
His salvation, His strength, His truth, His deliverance,
an abundant life in Him.)
and we live for the moment, for the present.
We continue to disregard the Lord's great inheritance to us today
by living beneath our privileges,
by not receiving what the Lord has given us and spoken over us,
by ignoring or only giving lip-service to the truths
of who the Lord says we are in Him.
The Lord lavishes on us a great birthright today,
an inheritance that gives us a double portion,
an inexhaustible measure of His presence,
His salvation, His strength, His truth, His deliverance,
an abundant life in Him.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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