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Jacob, Why Are You Limping? |
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Can you imagine a man wrestling with God and winning?
Before Jacob could cross the Jabbok River, a man attacked and fought with him. The fight was real, and it was physical. "Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had. Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak" (Genesis 32:22-24). They wrestled all night in a long decisive battle until daybreak. The man with whom Jacob wrestled refused to reveal Himself directly (v. 29). Probably if Jacob realized he would be fighting against God, he never would have engaged the Man.
Perhaps the strangest thing is that Jacob was not defeated until the Man “touched the socket of his thigh, so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him” (v.25).
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