I'm not talking about Jacob.
Everyone needs to wrestle with God to get their spiritual revival. In Galatians, Paul said he went to Arabia before he started preaching. According to NT Wright in his "Paul for everyone" series, Arabia is Mount Sinai, and Paul went there to wrestle with God just like the previous prophets e.g. Elijiah did.
"God to Saul's horror and amazement, had now revealed that... Saul, an ultra-orthodox Jew, might tell the pagan nations that God loved them... We are all different, God does not break all hearts in the same way... But the central strand of most Christian living that everybody needs, from time to time, to wrestle with God and His will. It is necessary, too, that Christian leaders should be seen to be telling their own story truly."
I read this when I was travelling to work on a mini-bus yesterday and tears suddenly welled up in my eyes...
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