Tag: wrestle

Have wrestled with God? Are you wrestling with Him today? It’s not uncommon and it’s not a sin. It’s ok to wrestle with God and I’m pretty sure God is ok with it. In Genesis 32:22-32, Jacob wrestled with God and even though he walked away with a limp he still walked away a better man and blessed by God. Verse 30, – “So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”

Have you wrestled with anyone? Your kids, your spouse, in a fun away of course. Maybe you wrestled in high school, maybe you just like to watch wrestling. It’s hard when the other person overpowers you and all you want to do is to be let go, to be free, have your way out. It’s the same when we wrestle with God. Sometimes it’s about not being so willing to give God our hearts and lives and let Him have control. Other times it’s struggling over what He wants us to do, like with Jonah. Jacob was trying to do life his way. When we wrestle with God we need to understand that God will prevail and we walk away blessed.

I like the part, “It is because I saw God face to face …”. When you wrestle with someone it’s full body contact, face to face, an embrace, it’s pretty intimate. Even just arm wrestling you’re face to face. I’m not suggesting we make a practice out of wrestling with God. God wants nothing more than to be our Father, to have our hearts and His way in our lives. We as humans, sinful, prideful, want our way. God wants a relationship with us and He provided a way to do that, through the sacrifice of His Son. While we maybe struggling and wrestling, God is literally embracing us.