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Yes, Jacob – now Israel – has met and engaged the living God. In response to his willingness to fight, rather than flea, God grants him his blessing. Jacob has continued the witness to prayer ...
And yet, as we read on, we find God relentlessly pursuing Jacob. And his pursuit never ends, seeking him, pouring his love and grace, wrestling with Jacob until he surrenders.
Jacob wrestled with God in the desert, through the night, by himself. As dawn broke, God blessed him and re-named him Israel. He had become a new creation, a new person, and was given a new mission.
And, like Jacob wrestling with God, we will mature into our full selves, in full relationship with one another, reconciled with our siblings. Rev. Madelyn Campbell is the minister of the Unitarian ...
When Jacob is wrestling with the Angel of GOD (what’s that, you may ask?), he asks the Angel, who he thinks is a man, what his name is: The Angel doesn’t tell him (for No Name can be given ...
In all this domestic drama, Jacob has a mysterious experience of wrestling with “a man” at night, a man the story hints was an angel or even God himself. At first, the man seems bent on ...
One afternoon as I set up in my favorite coffee shop for a time of prayer and devotionals, I found myself drawn to the story of Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32. After Jacob wrestles with ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Joe Sternberg. Photo: Getty Images “We Who Wrestle With God,” Jordan Peterson’s latest book, is an ...