Esau's legacy and modern-day Nigeria (an Independence Day message)
Something was always curious to me about the multiple mentions of Esau's error in the Bible. He sold his birthright for a meal of pottage in the first book, Genesis. But he still gets mentioned long after that incident as a cautionary tale even into the New Testament, in the book of Hebrews 12:16: "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright" With the above, one might begin to wonder: "No be just yam (or beans) this boy chop? He made a silly decision in the heat of hunger, let's rest!" But I'm in love with how the Bible answers even the questions it generates - without fail, every time. And how much relevance the story of Esau holds for us and instructs us even up till our present day, heck, even up to today, being the 64th commemoration of the Independence of our home nation Nigeria. Back to Esau. Many readers of the Bible remember him as the first born of Isaac, who lost his birthright (and ...
