Jacob Wrestles With God (Genesis 32: 22-27)
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
The man asked him,
“What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
This story seems so insignificant to some, but at the same time it is very significant to others. We watched the Name video by Rob Bell last night at Youth at Asbury. The question Rob poses seems so simple, who are you? what is your name?
During this movie while Rob is talking people in the background keep taking off multiple shirts. On the back of the shirts there are names such as addict, successful, homeless, weird, smart, nerdy, immigrant, Muslim, Jew, etc. It really is a profound movie once you dive into it.
Through our pretty intense discussion we realized who we are. Every single one of us. We are children of God. We know that God knows us so much. God knew every thing about us before we were even born. He knows our faults, he knows our successes, he knows what we do well, he knows what we fail at, he knows EVERYTHING. And the amazing thing in all that, God still loves us no matter what. We serve a wonderful, loving, forgiving God.
In the Bible we hear God call himself, "I AM." In the Bible, I think, they messed it up. I suggest that God really said. " I AM _____(FILL IN THE BLANK)_____"
God is ____grace____
God is ____love_____
God is ___compassion___
God is ___failure____
God is ___pain____
God is ___________
What is God to you?? Can you embrace who you really are, and who God made you to be?
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