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Wrestling with God

Wrestling with God
Why should we wrestle with God?
Have you seen a lion wrestling with his cub?
Will wrestling help the cub grow stronger?
Our Father in heaven is the Lion.
Satan wants to be a lion and he tries to act and roar like one.
He always wanted to be like God.
I believe wrestling with the true Lion, our Father in heaven,
helps us face Satan and his foes and not be shaken.
How can we wrestle with God?
Start by asking Him to wrestle with you first.
One way to wrestle with the Lord is to knock persistently.
Then He said to them,
“Suppose one of you has a friend,
and goes to him at midnight and says to him,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves;
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey,
and I have nothing to set before him’;
and from inside he answers and says,
‘Do not bother me;
the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed;
I cannot get up and give you anything.’
“I tell you, even though he will not get up
and give him anything because he is his friend,
yet because of his persistence he will get up
and give him as much as he needs”
(Luke 11:5-8).

We can also wrestle with the Lord by being extremely honest
about our true feelings and even our disappointments.
What if He started to provoke you to wrestle with Him long ago
but you refused because it was not a holy act to you?
I believe the true Lion, our Father, is always ready
to wrestle with His cubs (us).
Get ready to wrestle.
If Jacob did it, we can do it.
If the Lord wrestled with Jacob, He will wrestle with us.
It will be fun and it might hurt a little.
The pain of wrestling with our Father is an honor
that will give us enough authority to face Satan, the artificial lion.
Are you ready for the call?
From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.
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