Quit

Have you ever wanted to just quit? It could be anything maybe as a child you wanted to quit a sport or an activity you were evolved in or maybe a relationship. The boy or girl you were dating you may have said something of this nature "we are still going to be friends I just feel we need to see other people." Who knows, but I am sure each and every one of us has at one time or another wanted to just quit. My feelings have been hurt and I wanted to quit, I have been misused and I want to quit. I want to look at a man who quit and what happen to him because of his quitting. This man's name is Esau as Hebrew chapter 12 the writer show us of a metaphor referring to the great amphitheatre with an arena for runners

Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 12:2
Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Here in this arena the runners are to look unto Jesus, just as in any race the runners have shed the weights that will slow them down. As we read on we find in

Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: What's the first thing you think about when you think of Esau? This is the man that allowed himself to get so hungry that he sold his birthright.

Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Why was it so important for Esau to follow peace? Esau was in a difficult family situation. His parents, Isaac & Rebekah, had to wait 20 years before they had children; when they did they had twins. God said the elder would serve the younger. Esau was born first, which meant that according to God's plan, he would have to serve Jacob. If that were not enough, another area of contention was Isaac loved Esau, and Rebekah loved Jacob. It's dangerous for parents to show favoritism. You could find Isaac & Esau at Bass Pro Shop every weekend. They hunted & fished & worked together. While Rebekah and Jacob were busy watching the Food Channel. Esau did not have a very good relationship with his mother or his brother, but he did have peace with his father. Esau quit because of the adversity and hardship, it not only made his relationship with his mother and brother worse, but he also destroyed his relationship with his father. The peace was gone. Esau felt he had, had two things stolen from him #1- His Birth Right and #2- His Blessing because of that things changed and he basically quit. Esau's Goals Changed
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob. And he blessed him and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. When Esau found out that his father did not want his sons to marry a daughter of the Canaanites, Esau immediately went and married a heathen woman to spite his father. Esau's Values Changed
and the things that used to be important are suddenly not important anymore.

Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. The word "fornicator" in the Greek is "pornos" from which we get the word "pornography." The root meaning of the word is "to put up for sale." When we quit, our values change so much that we are even willing to sell our purity and pollute our personal lives. When we quit and change our values the things that once mattered, no longer matter anymore. We not only give up our purity we become profane people. Esau's Future also Changed too not because he was not knowledgeable or he wanted his life to have a long story of disaster. It was not because he didn't know what was right and what was wrong. It was all because he dropped out of school. Esau could have become a great and godly man. His grandfather and father knew more about God than anyone else in the world. He could have learned to walk with God in faith, and there could have been 41 verses in Hebrews 11 instead of 40. There could have been a verse that read like this "Esau accepted the difficult position of the elder serving the younger and became a great and godly man of faith." But no we read in

Heb 12:17
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. Esau cried and wept later so here's the lesson for us
"Today's decisions always affects Tomorrow's experience". Have a wonderful week and don't even think about quitting.