Your inheritance is like your future, your assured future! An earthly king’s promise is good and incontestable only when he is alive. Will you give up an assured future for uncertainty? To do so will be akin to being an Esau who did not value the birthright that came down through God’s promise to Abraham. His lifestyle was temporal and physical (Genesis 25:34; 26:34-35).

1. His actions were impulsive, lacking thought and wisdom.
2. Esau is portrayed as a man of action before thought, who was guided by his baser desire at the expense of higher reasoning.
3. Strong but crude with little interest in spiritual things.

Was such a character worthy of inheriting Isaac’s blessing? That Esau was so willing to sacrifice the long-term plan for momentary pleasure was a sign that he was not worthy of carrying the Abrahamic legacy despite being a witness to Abraham’s life, and he must have heard his teachings. What about you? Are you worthy of carrying the spiritual inheritance bestowed on you? Your conversation and interaction with the world will tell!

Naboth in 1 Kings 21 proposition was a spiritual person, knowing enough about the importance of Jehovah’s laws of preserving legacy than to trade it for money which will be spent (1 Kings 21:3). He gave a sharp rebuke to an evil king who had no regard for spiritual things, an Esau type in a kingly robe. You know the rest of the story. Standing up for the spiritual things will not always bring you accolades, the enemy, Satan, will not be pleased, for Naboth’s life was taken, his inheritance temporarily taken, but preserved in time by the righteous Judge (1 Kings 21:16-19)

*But Naboth valued his inheritance—and that, at such a terrible time. What a precious and refreshing thought that; in the midst of ruin there was one who valued that which was given by God and would not let it go, even at the request of the king. Such faithfulness cost Naboth his reputation and even his very life. But the last chapter of the godly man does not end with his cruel and unjust stoning. Can we still find him among us heroes of faith who can undergo trials of cruel mocking and be stoned (Heb. 11:36-37)? Such are those that will be numbered among those of whom Jehovah of Hosts says, “They shall be unto Me a peculiar treasure” (Mal. 3:17)?

As Christians we have an inheritance of far greater value. God has begotten us again “to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfailing inheritance, reserved in the heavens” (1 Pet. 1:4). Do we value this inheritance enough to live in view of it, and if necessary to die rather than to renounce it? There are lots of Ahabs around who would offer us “a better vineyard” or “its value in money” exchange for our inheritance. May we answer them in the words of Naboth, “God forbid!” — *Taken from Word For Today

Selah

Pastor Afolabi Oladele