Today's OneWord is "Wrestled"
All of our lives we have been wrestling with something. We wrestle with whom we are, what people call us, whose child we are, social issues, church issues, marriage issues, and family issues. At some point, we must stop wrestling and learn to rely on God.
Remember the story of Jacob when he wrestled with God. Jacob had become afraid of facing Esau because he remembers how he wrestled with those family issues the last time they saw each other. Jacob thought he was taken a sensible approach, a scheme, by sending his servants in different groups with gifts ahead of him to tell Esau he was coming. Sending the gifts were not the problem, but calling Esau, "my lord" and himself "your servant" was the matter. Jacob was trying to impress Esau with his wealth, but did not realize he was showing that he did not trust God. Instead of allowing God to work this out, as He did for Jacob with Laban, Jacob decided to handle things himself.
Jacob was afraid, and when he got scared, he reverted to his old ways of doing things. Remember, he was a trickster. Let us enter into a situation that we cannot handle or God is not moving fast enough. What we have in us will come back out of us. Many of us who are supposed to be walking by faith, but instead we continue to wrestle all night long. We wrestle for many years, and sometimes we wrestle our whole life in fear of the enemy or whatever distressing news may find our way. We struggle because we have not allowed God to use what we have been through to bless us. We wrestle because we cannot heal what we have not acknowledged.
Then we become like Jacob, we need to pray to the Lord the promises He told us. Remember, Jacob reminded the Lord of the promises He had made to him at Bethel, how He would bless him real substantial and multiply his descendants. How He would be with him and bring him back to his land. And do not forget, he reminded the Lord that He would accomplish His purposes in him and through him. When we pray these types of prayers, we must have faith. Faith is not scheming. No matter what we face or what fears may grasp our hearts and emotions, we can trust God to be faithful to His Word. We must begin to look at our own lives and see what schemes are up our sleeves that keep us wrestling all these years.
Jacob wanted Esau to accept him through all his scheming; this is what got Jacob in this position in the first place. Therefore, Jacob sent the gifts to Esau, but he stayed that night in the camp by himself. He was alone, and a man came and wrestled with him until the sun came up. When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck Jacob's hip and put it out of joint. Let us pause for a moment; God meets us at whatever position He finds us in order to bring us to where He wants us to be. Jacob had spent most of his life wrestling with people. He wrestled with Esau, Isaac, Laban, and his wives. It is only befitting that God had to come to Jacob as a wrestler. This time Jacob decided to hold on until He blessed him.
What have God allowed to break us so that He can bless us? What has He changed our name to so that He can use us? I can see it is the beginning of a new day for us: He has broken us to bless us; He has knocked our hip out of joint to give us a new walk, and we have held on tight to have a new relationship with God.
We do not have to wrestle anymore; He won the battle and we received the victory. Now we can rely on God.
All of our lives we have been wrestling with something. We wrestle with whom we are, what people call us, whose child we are, social issues, church issues, marriage issues, and family issues. At some point, we must stop wrestling and learn to rely on God.
Remember the story of Jacob when he wrestled with God. Jacob had become afraid of facing Esau because he remembers how he wrestled with those family issues the last time they saw each other. Jacob thought he was taken a sensible approach, a scheme, by sending his servants in different groups with gifts ahead of him to tell Esau he was coming. Sending the gifts were not the problem, but calling Esau, "my lord" and himself "your servant" was the matter. Jacob was trying to impress Esau with his wealth, but did not realize he was showing that he did not trust God. Instead of allowing God to work this out, as He did for Jacob with Laban, Jacob decided to handle things himself.
Jacob was afraid, and when he got scared, he reverted to his old ways of doing things. Remember, he was a trickster. Let us enter into a situation that we cannot handle or God is not moving fast enough. What we have in us will come back out of us. Many of us who are supposed to be walking by faith, but instead we continue to wrestle all night long. We wrestle for many years, and sometimes we wrestle our whole life in fear of the enemy or whatever distressing news may find our way. We struggle because we have not allowed God to use what we have been through to bless us. We wrestle because we cannot heal what we have not acknowledged.
Then we become like Jacob, we need to pray to the Lord the promises He told us. Remember, Jacob reminded the Lord of the promises He had made to him at Bethel, how He would bless him real substantial and multiply his descendants. How He would be with him and bring him back to his land. And do not forget, he reminded the Lord that He would accomplish His purposes in him and through him. When we pray these types of prayers, we must have faith. Faith is not scheming. No matter what we face or what fears may grasp our hearts and emotions, we can trust God to be faithful to His Word. We must begin to look at our own lives and see what schemes are up our sleeves that keep us wrestling all these years.
Jacob wanted Esau to accept him through all his scheming; this is what got Jacob in this position in the first place. Therefore, Jacob sent the gifts to Esau, but he stayed that night in the camp by himself. He was alone, and a man came and wrestled with him until the sun came up. When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck Jacob's hip and put it out of joint. Let us pause for a moment; God meets us at whatever position He finds us in order to bring us to where He wants us to be. Jacob had spent most of his life wrestling with people. He wrestled with Esau, Isaac, Laban, and his wives. It is only befitting that God had to come to Jacob as a wrestler. This time Jacob decided to hold on until He blessed him.
What have God allowed to break us so that He can bless us? What has He changed our name to so that He can use us? I can see it is the beginning of a new day for us: He has broken us to bless us; He has knocked our hip out of joint to give us a new walk, and we have held on tight to have a new relationship with God.
We do not have to wrestle anymore; He won the battle and we received the victory. Now we can rely on God.
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