Written by Vinnie Tumia
We all have a sellout price. It’s unavoidable, and it usually sneaks up on us. The sellout can be different for everyone: recognition, acceptance, pleasure, security, money, love. The worst part is that we weigh the consequences of sin while we linger near our known weaknesses.
Sometimes we don’t know our sellout price until the money exchanges hands. That is terrifying. Like Judas and Esau, we will beg for a refund, but we cannot reverse time.
Genesis 25:34 “Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.”
Esau minded his own business when the auction for his integrity suddenly began. After a long day in the field, he came home starved and weak. His brother offered a bowl of soup for his inheritance, and Esau traded the temporal for the eternal. He listened to the voice that convincingly whispered that the consequences couldn’t be too bad and that the trade was good.
The integrity auctions in our lives do not cause our weaknesses, they reveal them. The small, inconsequential choices we make each day strengthen or weaken our resolve in the bigger ones. Soon, a slight compromise in our morals turns into an irreversible train-wreck.
The integrity auctions in our lives do not cause our weaknesses, they reveal them.
Sellout is never worth the trade.
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