20 “Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.”
Genesis 27:38
Foolish Esau did not regard his birthright and lost it to Jacob’s subterfuge and he also lost the blessing for the future from His father.
It is so easy to get caught up in the things of this life and forget the spiritual life that we possess as the people of God. We pray for temporal blessings and sideline the things of God. We fail to value the personal closeness of the Lord and the joy of keeping His commandments. The Psalmist rejoiced to know the Lord and follow in all His ways.
“The Lord’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The Lord’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.”
Psalm 19:8
O that we would value the greater things and not fail to think upon our eternal inheritance. We value it above all and daily seek to walk circumspectly in the ways of our glorious God. This is the way to blessing even though our flesh does not agree. We walk in the Spirit of God and not in the folly of our own ideas.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1
Let is keep in tune and in step with the Spirit and not deviate into the realms of evil by following our sinful self. God is our everlasting contentment, and we succumb to all His ways and statutes.
Daily fragment of grace 