Genesis 25:29-32 [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!’ (That is why he was also called Edom.) [31] Jacob replied, ‘First sell me your birthright.’ [32] ‘Look, I am about to die,’ Esau said. ‘What good is the birthright to me?’”
Esau had a healthy appetite that was unhealthy. God created appetites, and like everything else that God created, sin distorted. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Appetites always whisper now and never later. As is so clearly demonstrated by the most ridiculous trade in history, stew for a birthright, the future for the temporary. Who in their right mind would do that? Who would trade a priceless possession for something as temporary as stew? Who would? You would if it was the right stew. That is the power of appetite temptation. “Who needs a birthright when I could have a bowl of stew?”
Please don’t allow something as God given as your appetite to become so unhealthy that you sell your birthright to satisfy it. Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”
