Greetings to all, as we begin this "hump" day Wednesday, a new day that is fresh and untouched, let us put aside yesterday and ask the Lord to make us new and to forgive us for what we have done in our past. Amen
Many are struggling right now because the world continues to be overwhelmed with so much corruption, death, and division.
When struggling, we often feel that we are all alone, and we find it hard to see God. We often want to get out, move on, or be set free. God wants us to know more than anything who we are and that we need Him.
It's doing those times of struggling, and we have done all that we know to do, and when we began to feel that we are alone, that's when God can come into us and do something in us and for us. Just ask Jacob.
Genesis 32:24-32 (GW)
24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until dawn.
25 When the man saw that he could not win against Jacob, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that it was dislocated as they wrestled.
26 Then the man said, "Let me go; it's almost dawn." But Jacob answered, "I won't let you go until you bless me."
27 So the man asked him, "What's your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
28 The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel [He Struggles With God], because you have struggled with God and with men—and you have won."
29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." The man answered, "Why do you ask for my name?" Then he blessed Jacob there.
30 So Jacob named that place Peniel [Face of God], because he said, "I have seen God face to face, but my life was saved."
31 The sun rose as he passed Penuel. He was limping because of his hip.
32 (Therefore, even today the people of Israel do not eat the muscle of the thigh attached to the hip socket because God touched the socket of Jacob's hip at the muscle of the thigh.)
Lesson: We may feel that our life is a life of wrestling like Jacob. We may have practiced deception, fraud, and dishonesty.
No matter what we're wrestling with, there is hope, and we don't always have to win; we only need to hold on long enough for the blessing to come.
While Jacob physically wrestled with the angel to be blessed, we may not wrestle physically, like Jacob, but we must always search for God, hold on, and never give up until God bless us.
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