Find yourself out of sorts and need to sort things out with God, what is in your power to change and what is not in your power to change. Man can do nothing without God that is of God in regards to miracles, wonders, and works. Jacob is pain he wrestling with God because God touched his hip and put it out of socket. Jacob is in torment and in pain as he wrestles with God physically not just spiritually. In one since maybe this is an act of God only man can understand and not a woman, because of the aggressive nature of man vs woman, but it a physical need of Jacob has he wrestles in pain with God. Jacob perhaps saying God you can do all things, and I can do these things but I can not change the nature of my hip bone. Jacob is perhaps wrestling over the oath he made to God concerning returning to his home, perhaps he wrestling with seeing those family members still living that he long to see. God was wrestling with Jacob to appoint to win he had to hurt Jacob. Sometimes God has to hurt us to help us and to heal us. Are we not touched by the cross of Jesus, does our heart not pain at the image of Christ suffering. Sometimes we have to experience hurt to reach up to God's ability and not our own.

Can one see Christ suffering and know it only through his forgiveness that we are able to be saved. That God's grace had to be efficient for our sins. God's grace had to be for our hope. Yet the wound to our heart had to occur to understand why Christ suffered and died for our sins, that man sought not his own understanding or God's but someone elses, that caused one's own sin from the beginning with Adam and Even in the garden.

Jacob had power with man and God. What does that mean, Jacob obey God, Jacob talked to God and wrestled with God over matters not just obeyed God. He talked to God and questioned God on matters as Abraham did, concerning who would die in Sodom and Gomorrah and who would live. Jacob talked to God has one would a friend, yet he also wrestled with God has one might a brother, to come to terms. As Jacob wrestle and the sun was coming up God said he had to go and Jacob said you got to bless me before you go. And God stopped on his thigh and perhaps at that moment is where God touched him for healing. Because with that Jacob arose and went to meet his brother for the first time in over 14 years.

Are you persuasive with God, who is man to think we can be persuasive with God. Yet it perhaps giving man credit for speaking up and speaking out to God in away that one would a friend or a brother. Jacob power was only what he had earned through hard work and establishing what sort of man he was. He had established with God the sort of man he was as far as speaking out even to God. Moses even spoke out to God when he felt something was wrong and then turned around and did what God was gong to do and slay those that worshipped the molten calf. Moses was corrected for killing for it broke the law of God. This wrestling of doing what we think God would want us to only to find us playing God in away that is not pleasing to God must end, for God's power to reign in the lives of all people, even those in disobedience to God.

Discernment comes when we see a President negotiating with the one that gave us the plague for things their country makes. No one can blame for a science experiment that goes wrong and spread into a pandemic right? Of course we see something occuring God holds Israel responsible for their actions of molten calf and the people receive not just punishment from Moses but from God. Where can we draw a line in our world. Where is the line drawn when it comes to disobedience to man and God.

Did Israel at the time of Moses wrestle with God over their situation, no they wrestle with their own power to try and change who lead them. They wrestled with their leaders but not God themselves. Even blaming God, but not talking to God about what the problem was. If one going to be like Jacob we have to wrestle with God about the problem, about what going on. Tell him our inability to change our situation to what we are able to do by our own strength. God hears it all and as a solution if we allow him to dry our tears from our eyes, to heal the wound that stops us from walking, and helps us to even stand in the breaking of the dawn.

Without the sorrow of sin, there is no healing. Without the wrestling of saying others sin as well, we can not see our own mistakes. Without understanding Christ had to go to the cross for our sins to demonstrate the grace of God with man. If you wrestling with God, he knows you power and strength, but do you know and understand God's power to deliver and provide. Talk to God as you would a friend, receive Christ as Lord and Savior and listen to your Heavenly Father.

Dear Heavenly Father you know our hearts and our pain in our life. We hand those hurts and our pain to you as we wrestle not only with you, but understanding with the wrestling comes pain and healing. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Exodus 32:9-27 KJV
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

Exodus 32:31-35 KJV
31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
35 And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.