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Pastor's Blog - 03/15/2008
What happened that night near the shallow part of the brook called Jabbok has been on my mind during the last couple of months. I have read and reread the story surrounding that night maybe 200 times.
Jacob’s wrestling with his brother had begun in the uterus and continued throughout their adult lives. In Genesis 33, Esau approaches Jacob with 400 armed men, and we have the set-up of another fight. Except, we already know that Jacob has wrestled all night with God. Jacob approaches Esau with his hands outstretched; and as the two embrace, he professes that to see Esau is to see the face of God. The issues that stood between Jacob and Esau could only be settled in an assembly with God.
That night Jacob’s name was changed to Israel. And that is the name that has stuck forever – you who have wrestled with God and have prevailed. Paul’s implication in the New Testament – that we all who have embraced God are also Israel – contains the promise of triumph and is a standing invitation by God to persist.
I encourage you to wrestle with God through your darkness and at the end when He seems to push away, attach yourself to Him asking for a blessing.
~Pastor Micheal Goetz
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