Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright (Genesis 25:34).

Esau was brother to Jacob. One day he came back from hunting in the fields. He was hungry and tired. His brother Jacob was preparing some stew and asked his brother for a bowl. His brother Jacob used this time to negotiate for what seems unimaginable -- his family birthright.

Why would Esau take his birthright so lightly? Because he did not understand its value. Every business day there are countless men and women who exchange their birthrights for worldly goods because they see what the world has to offer as more valuable than what God might offer.

This is not all their fault. For Satan has blinded the minds and hearts of men and women for centuries. He does not want them to know the tremendous gold mine that awaits the child of God. Their inheritance is filled with meaning and purpose and rewards that await them both here and in heaven. Satan keeps men and women from seeing the real value of their own Godly inheritance.

Your role as a marketplace Christian is to be the key that unlocks this prison that keeps so many in captivity. You may be the one to reveal the truth that allows them to enter into the inheritance God desires for them. Pray that God allows you to see each unsaved person you encounter as one who needs the key you hold in your hand. Then you will add to your own inheritance laid up for you in heaven.