Genesis 27:35-40: in context

When Esau comes to receive his father's blessing, he learns that his brother Jacob has taken it by deceit. He is stricken. He took my birthright, Esau cries, and now he has taken my blessing. Have you not reserved a blessing for me? And when Isaac explains that the blessing has been given and cannot be recalled, Esau lifts up his voice and weeps bitterly, begging, bless me, even me also, my father. He weeps for the blessing now lost, the same birthright he had once sold to Jacob for a single meal, treating it as a thing of little worth.

The tragedy of Esau is that he weeps too late for what he had once despised. Years before, hungry from the field, Esau had sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew, treating that precious inheritance as a thing of little value, worth trading for an immediate appetite. He had held it lightly, despised it, let it go for almost nothing. And now, when the blessing that went with it is lost, he weeps bitterly, valuing at last what he had earlier thrown away, seeking with tears what he had once sold cheaply. He valued the precious thing only when it was gone, and his grief came too late to regain it. This holds a sobering warning about treating lightly what is precious. It is possible to hold something of great value lightly, to despise it, to trade it away for some immediate satisfaction, not reckoning its worth, and then to grieve bitterly for it when it is lost, valuing it only when it is gone. Esau sold his birthright for a meal and wept for the blessing too late. And we can do the same with things of great and lasting value, our relationship with God, our integrity, our opportunities, the precious things we hold, treating them lightly, trading them for immediate satisfactions, and grieving their loss only when it is too late to regain them. See to it, Hebrews warns, that no one is like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal, and afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, was rejected, though he sought it with tears. This searches whether we are treating lightly what is precious. Are there things of great value that we are holding lightly, trading for immediate satisfactions, not reckoning their worth, that we may grieve too late when they are gone? Esau's bitter tears over the blessing he had once despised warn us to value the precious things while we have them, not to throw them away for a moment's appetite and grieve their loss when it is too late. This calls us to value what is precious before it is lost. Esau treated his birthright lightly, sold it for a meal, and wept for the blessing too late; and his tragedy warns us not to hold lightly the precious things we have, our life with God, our integrity, our opportunities, trading them for immediate satisfactions, but to value them while we have them, lest we, like Esau, grieve their loss only when it is too late to regain them. Value the precious now, before it is gone; do not despise it and weep for it too late.

Are there things of great value that I am holding lightly, treating as of little worth and trading for immediate satisfactions, my life with God, my integrity, my opportunities, that I may grieve too late when they are gone, and can Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal and wept bitterly for the lost blessing too late, warn me to value the precious things while I have them rather than despising them and grieving their loss only when it can no longer be regained?