Jacob wrestles...

What about Jacob?

Remember him?

Do you remember that he wrestled with God?

Genesis 32: 24 -31 :

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. Then He said to Jacob, “Let Me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”

“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”

But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?” And He blessed him there.

Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “and I have been delivered.” The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel—limping because of his hip. 

Can you relate to Jacob?

The canyon-deep struggles with God? -

The pleas that go on and on,

all night.

He strikes you,

you are dislocated and breathless, weary with the fight.

But, you will not -

let go.

You cry out as Jacob did, with all your heart, soul and mind.


Everything that is within you wails with the anguish of the struggle, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”


This is me, right now, tonight.
“I will not let You go unless You bless me.”


And you know what, the thing that awakens me when I read this - is - that He does it!

God blesses Jacob.

" And He blessed him there."


Sore and aching I may limp with the struggle, but I will see my God!  
“For I have seen God face to face,”... “and I have been delivered.” 

I will wait for His deliverance.

I will not let go,

unless He blesses me.