Genesis 32:24-28
New International Version (NIV)
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 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. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Many times I find myself wrestling with God too, because of my stubbornness, my refusal to hear Him,to obey Him.The man asked for Jacob's name, not because He does not know his name, but because He wants him to admit who he really, forcing him to face himself. I have to face myself too, that yeah I'm really weak and insufficient, and there is really nothing to be ashamed of (sometimes our culture shout to us so loudly that we have to be somebody, like smart,cool,pretty etc. just be somebody like that). There is nothing to be ashamed about being insufficient, because that's the fact of human. We can still rejoice for being weak, because we have Christ living in our lives, who has overcomed everything for us, who has redeemed everything for us.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2Corinthian 12:9
