MinistryMessages
January 20, 2020
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
“Now [Jacob] arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids
and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and
sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had. Then Jacob
was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
-Genesis 32:22-24
Jacob didn’t foresee this wrestling experience but God did. When Jacob had exhausted all his own efforts at self-preservation, God came to wrestle with him. God wrestles with us like He wrestled with Jacob. This wrestling deals with the basic problem of our growth in life.
Adapted from A Sketch of Genesis, by Titus Chu, page 156.
Tomorrow: Wrestling with God at Peniel (2)
