Today's encouragement comes from Genesis 32:24, where we read these words:
“And Jacob was left alone And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.” (ESV)Sometimes we accidentally say, that Jacob wrestled with God. In truth, it is the other way around: God wrestled with Jacob. Jacob was “all alone,” mind-ing his own (difficult) business, when God started the wrestling match. The Lord did this to confirm Jacob in the strength that he (Jacob) had, in the Christ who would come.
. . . The Lord let Jacob prevail against Him—just like a father will let his little child “prevail” against him (in a play wrestling match). God our Father allows us, His faithful churchmen, to “prevail” with Him in our prayers. Do you want/ need something from God today? Wrestle with Him, and get it—all in Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Is it not comfortable being in heaven? He that en-joys much of God in this life carries heaven about him.” —Thomas Watson, in, "A Body of Divinity"]
