If Esau had owned one of these cool things...he wouldn't have had to sell his birthright!

Esau could have left something cooking, gone out to hunt, and come home to a hot dinner!  Instead, he had to beg lentil stew from Jacob...and pay dearly for it..

My daughter and her family gave me this Wonderbag for Christmas, and I love it!  (My husband thinks it's great, too.)  You just let the food boil for 5 minutes on the stove, then place the pot in the Wonderbag, close it up...and hours later, there's a hot cooked meal ready.  It's a slow cooker, but it's not electric.  We had a power outage this afternoon, but that was no problem, since dinner was in the 'Bag.  (It would have been a problem if I had been using an electric crock pot.)  It's made of fabric and foam, and I think these are re-cycled.

The food comes out beautifully, too; ingredients don't mush together, moisture isn't lost, and when I open it up hours later, it's still very hot.  Another great reason to buy one of these (if you haven't already) is that for every one bought in the U.S. (and I assume other countries), one is donated to a woman from the African villages where cooking is done traditionally over open fires, which fill their homes with smoke and cause health problems.  With the Wonderbag, there is less deforestation, as they can use the fire only to bring the food to a boil 5 minutes, then put it into the 'Bag and forget about it while they're gone to the fields or jobs for the day.  They can come back to a smokeless house and a pot of hot food for their dinner.  It makes it easy to plan ahead.
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Of course, these weren't invented when Esau was around!  But at least he could have planned ahead and had something ready, right?  It's not as if he didn't know how to cook!  His father Isaac asked him to "..go out...and hunt some wild game for me.  prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat."  (Genesis 27: 3-4)  He must have known he'd come back from hunting all tired and hungry!
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I found this verse in Isaiah that I don't remember having read before.  Talking of what lies in store for those who oppose His people, he says "...as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched.  So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion."  (29:8) So...they will find that their dreams of glory and conquest will remain just that: dreams.  Their hunger and thirst for these un-eternal things will always be unsatisfied.  These nations will think they have planned ahead, only to find that it was all in vain. They trust the wrong source.

It's a constant point of gratitude that we can depend on our God, our Source, to supply our needs.  "Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things."  (Psalm 107: 8-9)  And we know that it's not only physical hunger and thirst that He satisfies!

Opening our hearts to His love is like opening up the Wonderbag and breathing in the delicious aroma, the promise of a hot, tasty meal...ready to fill our souls with "good things"...ready to wrap us in His comfort and warmth!