Believers Will Continue

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 it carefully with tears. place...: or, way to change his mind - Hebrews 12:17

    The birthright was a spiritual position; God's man in the family. It carried divine favor, spiritual blessing, and fellowship with God. Esau counted it with contempt in order to satisfy his fleshly appetite and desire. Shall we be so foolish as to consider that anything the world has to offer is worth the fellowship of our Lord? Those who are so foolish as to allow anything in this life to cause them to deny the faith or to renounce their responsibilities to God and his people or to allow this flesh to draw them away from his fellowship will, like Esau, someday weep with bitter tears, when it is beyond their power to recover what is lost! We are warned to guard against fleshly appetite, apostasy, covetousness, and the neglect of spiritual privileges. We have entered a race; the prize goes to those who finish (Heb. 10:35-39). There will be hard times, heavy trials, and along the way there will be tempting pastures of pleasure which appeal to the lust of the eye, the pride of life, and the love of fame and fortune. But we must turn away and go on. We may proceed slowly or rapidly; we may stumble and fall; but looking to Christ, we will continue in him. Neither the frowns of the world nor its smiles will cause us to surrender our inheritance.