Like Esau, who sold his birthright for a plate of food (Hebrews 12:16)
A story tells of a man who loves ancient books. He met an acquaintance who had just thrown away a Bible that had been stored for a long time in the attic of his ancestral home. “I can't read it,” his friend explained. “Someone named Guten-so-so has printed it.”
"Gutenberg huh!" the book lover screamed in surprise. “The Bible was one of the first books ever to be printed. A copy just sold for over two million dollars!”
His friend wasn't interested. “My Bible won't sell for a dollar. Someone named Martin Luther has scribbled all over it in Germany."
This fictional story shows how one can treat something as very valuable as something that has no value. That's what Esau did. Although he was a good man, Esau was a man of "lowliness of mind" because he sold his birthright "for a plate of food" (Hebrews 12:16). When it was too late to cancel the bad deal, he only fully realized that he had sacrificed something that remained on the altar of urgency.
We should be careful with the “transactions” we make in life. Our culture places the worthless in the first place, and discards the eternal as the worthless.
Ask God to help you distinguish what is valuable to keep and what to throw away — Haddon Robinson
WHY PAY THE WORLD'S EXPENSIVE OFFER WHEN ETERNAL LIFE IS GIVEN FOR FREE?
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