The Divine Transformation: Embracing the Struggle with God
Embrace the transformative journey as God comes not to defeat but to reshape us in the image of Christ. Explore the struggle for identity, purpose, and submission through inspiring quotes and biblical references, highlighting the paradox of fighting against and yearning for God's will.
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God comes after us. Not to defeat us but to transform us. To remake us like Christ in our identity and purpose.
God comes after us. How do we know the attacker is God? Why does God need to come after me?
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
Hosea 12 2 The Lord has a charge to bring against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds. 3 In the womb he grasped his brother s heel; as a man he struggled with God. 4 He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor.
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
Power, success, happiness, as the world knows them, are his who will fight for them hard enough; but peace, love, joy, are only from God. And God is the enemy whom Jacob fought there by the river, of course, and whom in one way or another we all of us fight - God, the beloved enemy. Our enemy because, before giving us everything, he demands of us everything; before giving us life, he demands our lives our selves, our wills, our treasure. - Frederick Buechner
Yes, we yearn to be ruled by Unfailing Wisdom and yet we resent having to submit to anyone or anything. We crave intimacy with Pure Benevolence but we fear the loss of independence. We resent the one we long for, and we are afraid of the One we desire. - Mike Galli
God comes after us. Not to defeat us but to transform us. To remake us like Christ in our identity and purpose.
To struggle used to be to grab with both hands and shake and twist and turn and push and shove and not give in but wrest an answer from it all as Jacob did a blessing. But there is another way . . .to trust . . . Not to be always reaching out for the old hand-holds.
God comes after us. Not to defeat us but to transform us. To remake us like Christ in our identity and purpose.
27 The man asked him, What is your name? Jacob, he answered. 28 Then the man said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.
God strives or The one who strives with God
