"What good is the birthright to me?" Genesis 25:32 When things did not turn out the way I expected it to be. It has been one month of being patient at the community. Sunday I was back to the city and it seemed that something has changed; hence, the opacity. I continued my reading of the Bible and I bumped into that statement of Esau. All of a sudden, amidst my silent mawkishness in the middle of the night, the word discipline entered my mind. Discipline. A single word but speaks volumes. Verily the root of such behaviour. "What good is discipline to me?" If that is my discipline Lord, help me to endure it. Unlike Esau who for a single meal exchanged his birthright, help me to protect what is mine. That I will not exchange it for a single craving, yearning for that matter. Unlike Esau who despised his birthright, I don't want to despise mine just because it is not pleasant at the moment. Unlike Esau who later realized what he had lost,...
“Here’s the one thing I crave from God, the one thing I seek above all else: I want the privilege of living with him every moment in his house, finding the sweet loveliness of his face, filled with awe, delighting in his glory and grace. I want to live my life so close to him that he takes pleasure in my every prayer.” Psalm 27:4