“Be careful, too, that none of you falls into impurity or loses his reverence for the things of God and then, like Esau, is ready to sell his birthright to satisfy the momentary hunger of his body. Remember how afterwards, when he wanted to have the blessing which was his birthright, he was refused. He never afterwards found the way of repentance though he sought it desperately and with tears.” ~Hebrews 12:16-17 (J.B. Phillips)
What if I find myself bound by the power of my own fleshy desire, incapable of denying the momentary hunger its pleasure, nor the motivation to even want to…? Is this talking about salvation, or the rut that we create when we continually cave?
I want to want the higher road. I don’t know how to make that want grow and become the thing that motivates deep, lasting internal change. The little red guy wants what he wants, and the little white guy wants what he wants. When I either cave or do nothing, the little red guy wins. Proactivity is the key here. So–how to go about that without it being a pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality…
