Are you hungry enough to throw it all away?

Hello Dear Friends!

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday week and looking forward to the weekend. I read this scripture yesterday and I started thinking about all of the plans (and pressures) we place on ourselves.

Goals are fine. Pressure isn't even a bad thing. But how far are you willing to go to feed hunger? Are you willing stay in an abusive situation because you hunger for companionship? Is your hunger for financial security hindering your ability to make clear (and ethical decisions)? What's you're hunger driving you to do?

This passage is not meant to pass judgment (because we're all hungry for something) but don't give away your birthright to satisfy your immediate needs. Stay the course. Work it out. Rely on God to see you through.

Stay blessed,

K.

Genesis 25: 22-34 (The Message)

Two nations are in your womb,
two peoples butting heads while still in your body.
One people will overpower the other,
and the older will serve the younger.

^{24 -26} When her time to give birth came, sure enough, there were twins in her womb. The first came out reddish, as if snugly wrapped in a hairy blanket; they named him Esau (Hairy). His brother followed, his fist clutched tight to Esau's heel; they named him Jacob (Heel). Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

^{27 -28} The boys grew up. Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman. Jacob was a quiet man preferring life indoors among the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he loved his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

^{29 -30} One day Jacob was cooking a stew. Esau came in from the field, starved. Esau said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stew—I'm starved!" That's how he came to be called Edom (Red).

³¹ Jacob said, "Make me a trade: my stew for your rights as the firstborn."

³² Esau said, "I'm starving! What good is a birthright if I'm dead?"

^{33 -34} Jacob said, "First, swear to me." And he did it. On oath Esau traded away his rights as the firstborn. Jacob gave him bread and the stew of lentils. He ate and drank, got up and left. That's how Esau shrugged off his rights as the firstborn.