Genesis 32:23-31
I have always felt that I'm wrestling with God, not against God but with God.
This may or may not end for only God will tell when he will let me win, but just like Jacob and Abraham and Paul God always let His children win, if they proved strong enough, if I proved I'm strong enough. God will provide us the strength to win, and He will give me the strength to win, but there will be reminders just like Jacob's hip and Paul's thorn in the flesh lest we and I become haughty to say that we and I won by ourselves.
God is sovereign.
Weekly Bible Devotional
Jacob Wrestling with the ANGEL of GOD
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Genesis32:23-31
