Wrestling with God - Literally?

Jacob wrestled with God - literally, physically. Are you kidding me? I have been studying the Bible with 2 amazing women who are reading through Genesis for the first time. We've been amazed at the insestry, deceit, and sin of the Old Testament accounts. Jacob manipulated his way into God's blessing, but God blessed him anways. God's grace and mercy is really obnoxious. His love for His people, truely unconditional. Although God's heart is grieved and saddened when we are disobedient and sin, but he is never taken by surprise and He's never disappointed. God knows we're going to fail, He knew it before "the beginning."

One of the names of God is El Roi (pronounced: El Roy) - The God who sees me. God knows us. God knew Jacob, and how he was going to gain the blessing. So why did God enter into a physical wrestling match with Jacob?? How does that come about? And it lasted to daybreak... God inflicted a supernatural blow to Jacob's hip. It's hard to fathom.

I love that God always gives me new things to think about and presses my belief's.