As most of Christendom teaches that this is Easter Sunday, it might worth our while to think about the preceding hours leading up to Jesus’s death and final resurrection. 

Since all things were known by Him, He knew his days on this earth would be only 33 years.  The concept of His death must have always been on the back of His mind.

Those last hours when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane must have been dreadful, knowing that death on the cross awaited Him within the next few hours.  He wrestled with God.

                                   Others also wrestled with God

Remember the story of Jacob and the night he wrestled with God, or an angel (Gen 12) Jacob cried. “I have seen the face of God.”   God wanted to prove him worthy to be the father of the children of Israel.  He proved worthy, for he defeated the angel, although left with a reminder by receiving his bad hip.  Not only did Jacob acquire a bad hip but a new name.  Now he was to be called Israel, “One in whom God rules.”

Are we ready to confess who we really are?  Inside.  Not the person we appear to be.  This involves some introspection on our part.  Are we the dedicated Christian that we pretend?  How do we feel knowing that we are not really in control of our life?  Do we still wrestle with our old “man” the real me?

Sometimes we struggle to find God or even know Him.  He is distant and aloof and doesn’t seem to care about my life or my problems. 

We wrestle with our feelings of being forsaken.  We are not receiving answers to prayers.  We feel deserted.  We feel alone in our struggles of wrestling with God for some meaning in problems that  we face each day. 

If you are wrestling with God; If you ask but do not receive, then abide with Him during your struggles.

Wrestling with faith provided Jesus with the strength to endure the cross.  

Wrestling with God provides us with endurance for the race!  It transforms us to be a person after God’s own heart!