SATURDAY - 30TH DECEMBER, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
DON'T DESPISE YOUR BIRTHRIGHT - The Abomination of a Husband Series 001
Genesis 25:32-34, KJV
"32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
By nature and the order of things, we know that Esau is the first born while Jacob follows. They are twins but one came out before the other (Gen. 25:24-26). Therefore, without any hardwork or effort, Esau has preeminence and the blessing that goes with it because he's the first born. He's just at advantage for being the first born. His being the first born naturally puts a blessing and right on him and ought to make him better. If there's no privilege in being the first born indeed, Jacob's eyes and ask wouldn't have been on Esau selling what naturally gives him preeminence over him to him. Jacob is therefore a commonsensical fellow who for awhile might have watched and seen in the life of Esau how he had been enjoying the preeminence and invisible blessings of being the first born. He might have envied the respect his brother enjoys even from outsiders who marks him as the first born of the two twins. Whatsoever it may be, Jacob saw something he wanted to have for himself. He might have envied this for a time before the opportunity to ask for it eventually presented itself.
We all know the story. Esau went hunting and returns home famished. He requests to be fed of the pottage of his brother, Jacob. However, Jacob turned the table and made a business deal out of it. Out of much hunger and the unfortunate inability to exercise discipline or delay gratification, Esau sells his birthright to have a moment of relief, enjoyment or sensation with food. When this was done and sealed with an oath, the Bible says, "thus, Esau despised his birthright." The Bible didn't comment on any transaction having been done until it was done, sealed and transferred. That was when the Bible then laments for Esau for treating with levity what has so much potency to make him the head over his brother and cause him to multiply.
It means, "having done this, Esau let go of what makes him the first born." Letting go of what makes him first born therefore includes transferring all the blessings and statuses that accompany being the first born also. He lost all together. It is he who is the first born heaven will honour with headship and the blessings of the first born so as to give bread to others. Therefore after this business deal, every vitality, grace and glory of the first born were immediately sold away to Jacob.
In like manner, transactions are still happening day in day out. I want to go to the home setting. Yesterday on our ministry platform, I sent a quote that says, "there are Esau husbands. They are those who have exchanged responsibility with convenience." If you're a man in a typical home setting, you're like Esau who has the birthright naturally conferred on him by God due to your gender and roles and could enjoy what the privileges of the birthright offer as well if you operate it. For instance, what is your birthright as a husband in the house? Because of your natural and God given position of being the husband, you lead, exercise governance, instruct and have oversee over the workings of your entire family. That's what your birthright naturally blesses you with. You may not regard it as blessings but see it as outright responsibilities and sacrifices until it's your wife doing them and exercising authority over you. That had be strange and ought to be corrected immediately. God has not created a wife in the home setting to exercise authority over her husband. If she's not a witch or lover of control, she should be ashamed of herself wanting to subdue or control her own husband. If there's any woman doing that at the home front, I'll say witchcraft is very very attractive to you. Your matron spirit should never seek to control or subdue your husband. Let it watch and oversee your children. So, the moment a man begins to ignore his responsibilities as a type of a first born or shirk them away to his wife is the day he has voluntarily and by consent signed off his birthright and position of being husband and the head. If it's your wife paying the bills or doing much of it and you're comfortable with it, that means you are an Esau husband. You have exchanged responsibility for convenience. You may think you're blessed having a wife who does everything for you and even puts food on your table but that responsibility she's doing (which ought to be yours) will invariably make her the husband and slide you to the status of the wife. As such, since she's the one acting the man, God won't be unjust not to allow her have the blessings that should have followed you. This is how men especially in the home setting sells their natural God given position or birthright to her who it is not from the beginning.
Yesterday, I made another statement to our ministry members. I told them in a quote that, "when you become responsible, you'll know how much it costs". No matter how undetailed any man may be reading this, if you're the one who pays the family bills, you'll one way or the other know how much it costs. Children are the only ones who don't know how much what they're enjoying costs. They only await the parents to make provision and provide them with life's necessities without knowing the pain, cost and sacrifice that goes into making such available. Let me tell you. If the burden of your family responsibility falls on your wife and she's the one who only knows the pain and sacrifice of what it costs meeting the family's needs, then God won't be unjust not to allow her have headship and more prosperity in what she does. You'll just observe that you're being relegated and you're going down. She'll overshadow you and that won't be because God plans it that way but because you sold out your birthright to her under convenience the day you said she should put more down for the family's needs.
That ain't her call. It is yours. Many conspiracies of life might have naturally backslided you and positioned her at an advantage for that but you should not consent to selling your birthright away. You also should give your 100%. You can pursue, overtake and recover. When you do, you'll see that it becomes easy exercising authority at the home front. You'll have her respect and submission. Your reputation won't have been damaged as you're well seated as the first born who has the blessings the birthright confers.
The birthright is a great privilege on your life. As you exercise yourself for your family even as a man of little estate, the blessing of the birthright will enlarge you. It'll become, "he who waters must be watered". This way, you'll forever have inorder to abound in good work towards your family. I pray for you, may your scepter of leadership and headship not break. Today, may you see that he who has the birthright has the blessings. On that note, seek to protect with your fibre the natural headship God has given you. It demands responsibilities of you but it in turns brings many blessings and advantages. It is what makes you the doer and the giver and that's what makes you to be the one being blessed in return.
PRAYER: Lord, heal my head. I'm sorry for absconding and jettisoning my duties to my wife. I'm ready for responsibilities as demanded by my position as the front man in the home. In return, I receive the blessings.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Malachi 1:1-2:17; Revelation 21:1-27; Psalm 149:1-9; Proverbs 31:10-24
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