Identity Consciousness (Esua)

…lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 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 (Hebrews 12:16-17 NKJV)

Today on the subject of identity consciousness, we’ll look at the case of Esau and his birthright. Esau never took his identity as the first son  seriously. If Isaac was a king, then Esau ought to have been the heir apparent; the next king after his father, yet he blew all that away over a plate of pottage.

The act of trading our identity is likened to profanity in Hebrews 12:16 where the Bible referred to Esau as a profane person. That is, someone who lacks respect for God and the things that are Holy. The Bible further compared such a person to a fornicator. 

When we trade our rights for temporal wealth and riches, the same thing that happened to Esau will happen to us. So many times we are so focused on the hunger and thirst for ‘one morsel’ of food that we miss the bigger picture. Some make ungodly compromises over things that are transient, forgetting that God can give us those things beyond measure. 
Esau got the food and also got the satisfaction for the moment but that was at a cost which he never finished paying.

We know how difficult it was for Esau to get any blessings from his father Isaac. The Bible says that he sought his father’s blessings diligently with tears. Was it difficult for the father to speak again, after all it was mere words that he spoke to bless Jacob? No, but a spiritual bargain had been sealed even before those words came forth.
In the same way, when we submit to certain covenants and compromises, we make the Word of God and prophecies to have no effect in our lives.

Esau paid dearly for that act of carelessness or foolishness if you like.
He didn’t think there was a big deal to being the first son but Jacob knew better.

Prayer Point Lord, please take away from me every spirit of carelessness and desires for things that do not have eternal value.