Chronicles of The Axe
But he who endures to the end will be saved. (1)
You only overcome the pressure when you are doing what you love what you are born to do. You only overcome the pressure when you are where you are supposed to be and you know it. When you are not where you are supposed to be the pressure will dispel you. You will be ejected. Even from the Garden of Eden we understand that Adam being the first born and privileged keeper of the Garden in the end took for granted what he received so freely as the first. When the pressure came he also was dispelled in that he failed (2). But God still had a plan and a Promise to be fulfilled in his Seed (3). One who would not despise the privileged and responsibility for the eternal destination of mankind. Our Lord Jesus He overcame the pressure, He overcame the cross because in His heart He truly loved and truly the inheritance of man was His, so that He overcame.
All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. (4)
Adam in his heart by the way he reacted when confronted for his mistake, we understand had an ungratefulness and self righteousness towards God by the tone in which he reacted. The woman You gave to me (5) revealed the hidden character in him that gave strength to the Axe of Pressure which he succumbed to and was cut off. He was not faithful to God with his whole heart and in that gap at the pressure point he failed.
As it happens to us many times when we are not surrendered to something whole heartedly like a subject in education, a career, a business, a venture, a relationship, a hobby or even a new found healthy life style. When it is not with our whole heart committed and passionate the pressure will always come to cut us off. To make us give up. Revealing the state of our heart. Only those who find what they love and whom they love can truly commit to a whole hearted faithfulness to that end no matter what. That Abrahamic love (6). With a heart divided (7) the pressure will reveal and exposed the state of the heart from the one who truly loves what he has or whom he has from the one who does not.
Like the typical example of Esau and Jacob, they were predestined before birth (8) so that the one entitled to the birthright did not inherit it as it was determined of him, yet the one who was not expected to, though by divine purpose to demonstrate the righteousness of God and that He may be known to be the God who sees (9), the God of the lowly and despised (10) would exalt and honour those who are the unexpected and rejected. It's just His thing; that no flesh should glory in His presence... that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”(10) and we know that did not fit the profile of Esau who was the favourite, loved and skilled hunter of his father Issac (11)
So that it happened when the pressure came the one who was exalted but was not his right, who was not meant to be in the end was cut off by the pressure (12). The pressure was the deciding factor for Esau. As we know that later when Jacob also faced the pressure he overcame because that was where he was meant to be. Truly because deep in his heart he valued what his brother despised. God knowing and seeing that had already determined it as He who sees the heart and tests the mind (13). The one who appeared to be was not and did not withstand but succumbed to the eyes and gave up the birthright.
For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (14)
The one who was determined yet was despised proved the pressure point; as Jacob who faced the pressure, wrestling with God did not succumb but declared I will not let you go until you bless me (15). Of course looking deeper into it we see that Jacob valued the birthright deep within his heart so that it was such at the tip of his tongue when the opportunity presented it self (12). Jacob was decided and did not miss nor waste the opportunity to inherit what was his truest hearts desire to be inherit of the birthright passed down from his forefathers in Abraham and the Eternal covenant that would be passed through him unto Salvation.
Esau did not value even at the root of it in that he despised in whom he should marry against his father’s advice. Indeed at the core of it, it was never for him that is why he did not withstand the pressure. He was not deep rooted in this cause or purpose to continue the eternal inheritance passed down from his fathers. God knew this and saw it so that He allowed it to happen that his brother inherited it in whom was this true desire. Esau took for granted what Jacob valued. The pressure was just the X-ray examination to declare the hearts truest desire and purpose. Yet the true deciding factor is that we make God our strength and not our own strength; that we honour Him and exalt Him so that He may receive the honour He is due that He has done it and not the strength of our own hands and not the ability of our own knowledge.
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