Wrestling

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Batista, Shaun Michaels, Undertaker, John Cena. Wrestlers.

D.J. and Chris. Wrestlers.

The old people who sit at the back on Sunday. Wrestlers?


There’s a story in Genesis about two wrestlers.
One wrestler is Jacob.
That’s Isaac’s son (remember he tricked his father and brother by wearing a sheep skin.)

He’s also the father of Joseph (and Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Bilhah, Dan, Naphtali, Zilpah, Gad and Asher.)
The other wrestler is…

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So, Jacob wrestles with God.

He gets given a new name: “Israel”.

Israel’s sons become a nation.

There’s a country today that's called “Israel”, because Jacob wrestled with God.

In the Old Testament Israel are God’s chosen people.

A whole nation of God-Wrestlers.

A people who wrestle with God.

Sometimes we think that God expects unquestioning obedience, but the scriptures don’t show us that. The Bible is full of people who question God. God invites to engage with him, question him, wrestle with him, get to know him.


A real relationship with God, like any relationship, involves conversation, debate, opposing views, conflict, resolution…



I’m fairly convinced that God always knows best, but I am only convinced of that because God has invited me to wrestle with him, to get to know him, to find out for myself.



So God invites us…
Wrestle with the issues. Wrestle with the questions. Wrestle with doubt. Wrestle with prayer. Wrestle with God about the suffering in the world. Wrestle with injustice.



Become a wrestler.