Wrestling with God/New Name

Basically this is the story of how Jacob wrestled with an angel or man or god or whoever but pretty much he was sent from God to have this encounter with Jacob. Well i am a wrestler and anybody who wrestles really finds out alot about themselves when they do but imagine wrestling someone sent from god and going with him all night, ok so a six minute match is enough for many people and puts their bodies in enough pain and strain to make anyone want a break or even quit only after six minutes, well Jacob went all night then his hip was put out by the angel and he held on desperately knowing it was god by the end of the night when the angel asks what his name is and tells him its no longer jacob which means manipulator and changes it to something totally transforming and calls him Israel which means God wrestler. Thats who i want to be i want to be like Jacob who held on to god no matter what the circumstance and got blessed by god and changed his name which in essence changed his whole life from there on out, when we are no longer labeled what or who we used to be we are transformed into gods children with a whole new vision for our lives and if we just make it through the wrestling matches with god when he tests our faith or satan comes to our face and challenges us then god will bless us as he did Jacob.

Created about 4 years ago