WRESTLING WITH GOD
How many of us
Have wrestled with God
Over a particular matter
A particular decision
Maybe even promising God,
“If you’ll just do this for me
I will never ask for anything again”
In Genesis 32
Moses tells us
About an encounter Jacob has with a man
They wrestle all night
And when the man
Sees he cannot overpower Jacob
He touches Jacob’s hip
So that his hip becomes wrenched
The man says,
”Let me go, for it is daybreak”
”Let me go, for it is daybreak”
Jacob responds,
“I will not let you go
Unless you bless me”
“What is your name, the man says?”
“Jacob”
The man said,
“Your name will be no longer Jacob, but Israel
Because you have struggled with God
And with men and have overcome”
The man went away
And Jacob knew
He had had an encounter with God
And lived to tell about it
But he walked with a limp
The rest of his life
Isn’t that the way with us
When we encounter our God
In prayer and in our life
Maybe getting what we want
Maybe not
But walking away
Knowing that we just had an encounter
With God--- and knowing that it will stay with us
The rest of our life
We pray to you Dear Lord
As we wrestle with you
On our journey through life
Wanting our own way and
Not accepting your way and will
For our lives
Yet knowing deep down
That your way is best
We pray
That as we wrestle with you
As we face the trials in our life
That we,
“Be joyful in hope
Patient in affliction
Faithful in prayer”
And that we
“Share with God’s people in need
And practice hospitality”
If we really and truly
Adopt this attitude
We know that we will never lose when
“Wrestling with God”
Robert P. Wallman
11-3-11
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