Hebrews 12:16 “Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.”
What Do You Value?
Which would you value, a porterhouse steak from a high-end steakhouse or a buffet restaurant with the “daily special” steak? What if the porterhouse included an hour-long wait but the buffet had no waiting? If you value good steak (and I do), then you probably want the porterhouse.
Now, let’s say you skip lunch and are nearly starving when the scent from the buffet wafts across your nose? You are probably going straight to the buffet and scarfing down the “economy” steak!
The truth is, the difference between pursuing the significant and pursuing the immediate is what you value. Do you value the valuable or the immediate? A person who primarily values the “now” is often called profane in the Bible. That simply means common, base.
Esau is a glaring example of a man who valued the immediate over the valuable. He sold his birthright for a bowl of soup! So many times, we frame many of our daily decisions in the same way. Do you choose the option that buys you a little bit of time for now, or do you choose to invest yourself in what will be successful later?
Never sell what you can’t afford to lose. As Evangelist Jim Cook says, the devil will give you what you want, but it will cost you what you have. Don’t trade the valuable for the immediate! Make sure you value what God values.