JOURNAL/WRESTLING WITH GOD

"The Lord is just-he LOVES just deeds; the UPRIGHT shall see HIS FACE"    Psalm  11:7

There are not many in this world who have seen GOD'S FACE during their lives-Jesus for SURE-since HE and the FATHER were ONE-Moses-Jacob-WHEN he wrestled all night with God-and POSSIBLE Elijah and the apostles that accompanied Jesus to the TRANSFIGURATION  (Peter-James-and John)

Yet God tells us IF we live RIGHTEOUS lives-we will see him FACE-TO FACE

What a WONDERFUL DAY it is to be ALIVE n God's everlasting NEVER ending LOVE for us












WITNESS




5-23-13




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”
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




Ps WITNESS 5-23-13


“And a man WRESTLED with God until daybreak” Genesis 32:24


“And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God
FACE TO FACE-and my life is PRESERVED” Genesis 32:30


MISC. WITNESS 6-7-14