Earlier this week, I picked up a book entitled Jacob’s Blessing from the library. Though I didn’t find the book very interesting, I got to read the life of Jacob from the bible once again.

I’ve always liked the character of Jacob. I like him so much so that we did a musical based on him a few years back. And I remembered the scene where Jacob wrestled with this man for his blessings which he later knew was God Himself. In the musical, we had a brother acted as Jacob, and nobody acted as God so there this brother was, in the middle of the stage, all by himself, and for 5 minutes he had to wrestled with seemingly nobody. But we give him some music so it doesn’t look that funny.. It was quite fun to watch!

And it’s always that part that made me wonder why Jacob did that ? I wonder if he knew that the man was God, would he still have wrestled with him ? Actually I sort of concluded that he would. If you know Jacob he’s the kind of guy who likes blessings. Remember his dealings with his brother Esau, his father Isaac and father law Laban ? So I believe if he knew the man was God, all the more he would have wrestled for his blessings for who else can give better blessings than God.

I admired Jacob for that. He desired for God’s blessings. So I thought that I should wrestle with God too. I think God wouldn't mind wrestling with me because He will always win. In Jacob’s case, he won big time, dislocated Jacob’s hips and left him walking away with a limp. Scary …but when I read the bible, I realised that it never recorded about Jacob’s misery living with a limp, but it did record Jacob truly blessed life after that. He reconciled with Esau and lived a blessed and prosperous life.

We all need to be like Jacob, to yearn desperately for God, even if it leaves us with a limp. But it's okay because we are all gonna die and when we die, a limp is not going to mean anything anymore, what will is that we have found God and his blessings in our life.