30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called aEdom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy abirthright.
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.
Tonight our FHE was short, but powerful for me. For the past week I have been struggling with some things and I haven't been in the best situation spiritually. I have sought out council, and at the same time I have been waiting for someone to "give" me the answers. I guess you could say I have placed some unfair expectations on the Lord. There were answers I wanted, but I wasn't doing my part in order to receive them.
Tonight, Matt shared the story of Jacob and Esau. When he asked what it meant, the words just flowed from my mouth, "Esau gave up something eternal for something temporary."
Too often we fall into what we can see right here, right now. We are hungry, we are faint, we want it taken away. Someone comes along and offers us a quick fix, and we take it. Nephi reminds us, "Ye are swift to do iniquity but slow to remember the Lord our God" (1 Ne17:45). The answer is "given" to us.
But what we don't see is the great opportunity to learn. If we would sacrifice a little more, the Lord would show unto us "the mysteries of God... according to the heed and diligence which [we] give unto him" (Alma 12:9). What marvelous things we might experience if we would just hold out a little longer.
We have also been promised, "I will also be your alight in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the bpromised land; and ye shall cknow that it is by me that ye are led" (1 Ne. 17:13).
Inasmuch as we keep the commandments, we will be led to the promised land - the blessings and answers we are seeking. "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a asteadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of bhope, and a clove of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and dendure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eeternal life" (2 Ne. 31:20).
Our Heavenly Father knows the beginning to the end. He knows the pains, joys, and sorrows we are and will yet to experience. The key is to hold on and endure to the end. He will lead us to the promised land as long as we are doing our part in pressing forward, having hope and love, feasting on the words of Christ, and enduring to the end.
"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than adesire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words" (Alma 32:27).
Tonight our FHE was short, but powerful for me. For the past week I have been struggling with some things and I haven't been in the best situation spiritually. I have sought out council, and at the same time I have been waiting for someone to "give" me the answers. I guess you could say I have placed some unfair expectations on the Lord. There were answers I wanted, but I wasn't doing my part in order to receive them.
Tonight, Matt shared the story of Jacob and Esau. When he asked what it meant, the words just flowed from my mouth, "Esau gave up something eternal for something temporary."
Too often we fall into what we can see right here, right now. We are hungry, we are faint, we want it taken away. Someone comes along and offers us a quick fix, and we take it. Nephi reminds us, "Ye are swift to do iniquity but slow to remember the Lord our God" (1 Ne17:45). The answer is "given" to us.
But what we don't see is the great opportunity to learn. If we would sacrifice a little more, the Lord would show unto us "the mysteries of God... according to the heed and diligence which [we] give unto him" (Alma 12:9). What marvelous things we might experience if we would just hold out a little longer.
We have also been promised, "I will also be your alight in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the bpromised land; and ye shall cknow that it is by me that ye are led" (1 Ne. 17:13).
Inasmuch as we keep the commandments, we will be led to the promised land - the blessings and answers we are seeking. "Wherefore, ye must press forward with a asteadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of bhope, and a clove of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and dendure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eeternal life" (2 Ne. 31:20).
Our Heavenly Father knows the beginning to the end. He knows the pains, joys, and sorrows we are and will yet to experience. The key is to hold on and endure to the end. He will lead us to the promised land as long as we are doing our part in pressing forward, having hope and love, feasting on the words of Christ, and enduring to the end.
"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than adesire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words" (Alma 32:27).
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