In Genesis 32:22-32, Jacob found himself to be left alone after sending everything that he possessed across the stream one night. After sending everything that he possessed across, a man came and begun to wrestle with him. Jacob did everything in his OWN strength to win the tussle. But the man touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket. The man told him to let him go, for the dawn is breaking. But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
As crazy as it may sound but ALL of us is wrestling with God at this very moment. I say this because we are a work in progress. God is purifying our hearts but we tend to fight against this process of perfection. Even if it’s as little as complaining in our own minds. But in God’s eyes, that’s as bad as complaining out loud.
God is telling us to send ALLLLL of that stuff across the river and call it rubbish, so that we can gain Christ and become one with Him. Also experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead.
In the process that God sends us through we become broken. In Jacob’s case he suffered hip injury. When I look at that, I'm like man; I want that same hip injury. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? If you read and get a good understanding of what happen after Jacob received the hip injury you will see that his name changed to Israel. And when people seen him after that they probably looked at him and asked what happen to him, due to the fact that he didn’t walk like everybody else. But before he got the hip injury the man told him that dawn was about to break. So it’s letting us know that a new day is coming. A day when we will resurrect, a day when we are set apart and stand out from everything/body elses.
But first we have to wrestle with God/go through the process of perfection and loose that battle. If you find yourself not wrestling with God, you may need to examine yourself more and see what’s really going on in that so-called heart of yours.
As crazy as it may sound but ALL of us is wrestling with God at this very moment. I say this because we are a work in progress. God is purifying our hearts but we tend to fight against this process of perfection. Even if it’s as little as complaining in our own minds. But in God’s eyes, that’s as bad as complaining out loud.
God is telling us to send ALLLLL of that stuff across the river and call it rubbish, so that we can gain Christ and become one with Him. Also experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead.
In the process that God sends us through we become broken. In Jacob’s case he suffered hip injury. When I look at that, I'm like man; I want that same hip injury. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? If you read and get a good understanding of what happen after Jacob received the hip injury you will see that his name changed to Israel. And when people seen him after that they probably looked at him and asked what happen to him, due to the fact that he didn’t walk like everybody else. But before he got the hip injury the man told him that dawn was about to break. So it’s letting us know that a new day is coming. A day when we will resurrect, a day when we are set apart and stand out from everything/body elses.
But first we have to wrestle with God/go through the process of perfection and loose that battle. If you find yourself not wrestling with God, you may need to examine yourself more and see what’s really going on in that so-called heart of yours.
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