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Are we completely dressed and ready for the day, or have we professed our belief in God and Jesus Christ, but not clothed ourselves in those things they provide us that will protect us against the world? On top of that, are we ready to wrestle with the issues pertaining to God’s will for our lives that require us to be more than unthinking creatures?
Do we find ourselves to be like Jacob as we wrestle with God in our prayers? Do we confront a terrible situation in our lives and pray as if it were our demanding prayer that would force the hand of the Lord to act? In reality it was not the wrestling that won the blessing for Jacob, and it will not be our forceful petitions that will win a blessing for us either. It will be the humble act of faithfully holding onto God. Are we ready to be battered, bruised, and have our hip put out of place in forceful and demanding prayer, only to find God’s answer comes by yielding everything except our faith in Him?
Do we wrestle with God when we are alone in our prayer closets? Do we realize that we are coming face to face spiritually with Him in that place, or do our prayers seem to be purely physical… a mental exercise of our body and mind? We, like Jacob, can wrestle with what we see and touch, only to realize when it is too late, and the sun has risen, that our match was with God Himself, and not with man… our mental perception of God. At that moment we humble ourselves, and He blesses us with a new name, and we honor that place by calling it “God strives”.