Monday, January 09, 2006
These are not my original thought, but I can sure relate
I have been thinking a lot lately about the story about Jacob and Esau found in Genesis 25:29 - 34. It is the story of how Esau comes home hungry - famished as the NIV words it, and asks Jacob for some of his stew. Jacob sells the stew to him in exchange for [Esau's] birthright. Years ago when I read it I just thought - how weird - why would he sell something so significant for a bowl of lentils? He was famished, but couldn’t he have taken a little time and whipped up something? Where was Rebekah? She and Isaac must have had something to eat in their tent. They were not a poor family. Later I understood it to mean that he thought so little of his birthright that he was willing to trade it for a convenient meal. Still, weird.
I am just like Esau. So often I trade my birthright - my health - for a convenient tempting meal. Every night when I go to bed I have the intention of eating well the next day. I am going to wake up, walk on the treadmill, eat oatmeal (real oatmeal, not the processed packaged type with sugar in it), pack a nutritious lunch, eat some fruit in the afternoon and come home to a vegetable and whole grain laden dinner.
Every morning this is what actually transpires .........
The rest was about her eating habits - but man, I am the same way.
I am just like Esau. So often I trade my birthright - my health - for a convenient tempting meal. Every night when I go to bed I have the intention of eating well the next day. I am going to wake up, walk on the treadmill, eat oatmeal (real oatmeal, not the processed packaged type with sugar in it), pack a nutritious lunch, eat some fruit in the afternoon and come home to a vegetable and whole grain laden dinner.
Every morning this is what actually transpires .........
The rest was about her eating habits - but man, I am the same way.
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Perri - Thanks for posting that! I never thought of the story that way - comparing a birthright to health. We really do just "give it away" every time we eat poorly.
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