29th.: Esau Sought for the Blessing with Tears
We can learn one other lesson from Hebrew 12:14-17.
Repeating the passage,
“Follow peace with all. Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God,
lest there be any profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat, sold his birthright.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected.
For he found no place of repentance, though he sought for it carefully with tears.”
When Esau came to his father, Isaac, to receive the blessing, he found out that Jacob
had already received the primary blessing.
Esau then,
“… cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, ‘Bless me, even me also, O my father.’” (Gen. 27:34).
The Hebrew passage tells that Esau got emotional over what he missed.
But God rejected Esau, because he found no place for repentance – Esau did not think that he needed to change.
Do we sometimes whine over missing something, or over difficult circumstances.
Yet God is really wanting us to repent (change our minds to accept God’s way of thinking).
If nothing else,
it is worth asking the Lord the following question, ‘Lord is this trouble coming upon me,
because I have offended you in some way?
If so, then let me know. If not, then please let me know that as well.'
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.’” (Matt. 4:17)