Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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It is startling to think that Jacob received Gods blessing not because he yielded to God but because he wrestled with God (Genesis 32:24-26). This was a fight that seriously injured Jacob. The man asked him to let him go. Instead of complying, Jacob refused and held out for a blessing. Every indication was that this was not what the man wanted and yet we learn later that Jacobs stubborn battling for a blessing thrilled God. From then on Scripture honors him with a new name: Israel, meaning he struggles with God. How peculiar! Doesnt God want us to submit to him? Yes, but to submit to the true God the God we know to be loving and longing to bless us not the God of our nightmares whom we fear is out to crush us and cruelly rob us of what is best for us. The Lord is thrilled when we refuse to surrender to the fear that he is selfish and stingy and harsh. He wants not people who fight him but people who know him so well and love him so passionately that they fight any hint that God is less than infinitely good and kind and generous.
Taken from Gods Mysterious Ways
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