COMPROMISE
Today's reading: Genesis 24-27

"Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank and went on his business, indifferent to the fact that he had given up his birthright." Genesis 25:34 NLT

Indifference. It's a nasty word. It's a compromising word. It's a word than loosely translates into a lack of care, concern or value.

We've all thought how silly and insensitive it was for Esau to relinquish what would be his for a bowl of soup and a slice of bread--but don't we do the same?

Do we diminish the work of the cross when we laugh at jokes meant to demean and criticize His church?

Do we laugh in the face of our Savior when we forfeit the importance of our adoption into His family by lowering our standards for entertainment?

Do we brush off the Spirit's wooing when we ignore His attempts to direct us, correct us, speak to us?

Do we compromise the value of His love for us when we speak poorly of another of His children, their attitudes, their actions, their failings?

What are we selling our birthrights for? Maybe not a loaf of bread and a bowl of stew, but perhaps a laugh, an opportunity to make ourselves look more godly, or just to fit in with a crowd we have no business fitting in with at all?