Holding onto God – Part II

Friday, March 5

Holding onto God – Part II   

Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” Genesis 32:26

There is another side of holding onto God which we must take another look at. It’s the other kind of wrestling, the wrestling with God against our sin nature to come to a place of humility and honesty that brings the longed for breakthrough in our lives. It is recognizing that He is Lord, in control and we are not, and like Jacob, acknowledging those things in ourselves that we neither like nor want – our hidden weaknesses and sinfulness.

There is something about being in bondage that gives man strength. There is something about being placed into the fire that allows us to be refined like nothing we’ve seen before. Like the butterfly whose wings are strengthened to fly as it struggles to free itself from the chrysalis, something is being forged within us in our own personal struggle – our heart and character is being changed. Far too often we wish we could bypass the struggle, but perseverance brings its reward – it’s in the struggle that we learn to trust and depend more on God and less on ourselves – we become more anchored in Him. We are nothing without the struggle. It is only in the fire we discover what we are truly made of and the more anchored we are in God, the more we realize how high we can fly.

Prayer for today: Father God, I am sorry for the times when I have struggled against You and against Your ways. Like Jacob, I don’t want to settle for anything less than the full inheritance that Jesus won for me on the cross at Calvary. Please help me to press in to yield to You. Today I choose Your way and not my own. Transform my heart so that I can move into the ‘promised land’ of my God-given destiny. Amen.