The beauty here is that we don’t have to be like Esau. Instead of selling our birthright for a single meal, we can embrace God’s eternal plan and purposes whatever the cost and the pain involved. When our hands become weak and our knees become feeble, we can “fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” (Heb. 12:2). As we do so, we have God’s promise that we will not “grow weary and lose heart” (12:3).
