Genesis 32:22-24

Genesis 32:22-24 (NLT) During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two servant wives, and his eleven sons and crossed the Jabbok River with them. After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions. This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. Years have passed since Jacob left his angry brother behind. Jacob and his mother had worked together to do God’s work and the act had embittered Esau, the older brother. Jacob got really busy down in the country of his mother’s people. He had found a wife(s) and had become very successful. He was skilled in breeding farm animals and his success had created a bit of division with his wife’s siblings. So Jacob is moving again. On Jacob’s way to a new destiny, he hears that his older and embittered brother is on his way to meet him. He finally did what he should have done years before, he got alone with God and in the night wrestled with an angel or Christ until he was willing to confess who he really was. We might be doing great but we can “cover up” a stinking nature only so long. We have to meet ourselves face to face and declare who we really are before we can go on in confidence to face our real fears. Jacob confessed that he was “Jacob” that meant he was crooked and everything he had gained up to this point was through conniving and manipulation. Are you tired of hiding behind a façade? Are you ready to face your real person so you can finally just say it like it really is without having to make the next story bigger than the last? The feeling of just living with yourself and who God made you is powerfully fulfilling.

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