{"id":15937,"date":"2019-12-12T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=15937"},"modified":"2019-12-12T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:40:47","slug":"are-you-winning-or-losing-in-the-wrestling-match-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/are-you-winning-or-losing-in-the-wrestling-match-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you winning or losing in the wrestling match of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"976\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801-1024x976.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801-1024x976.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801-315x300.jpg 315w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestling-33397801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genesis 32:24,<\/strong> <strong><em>Wrestled with him.<\/em><\/strong> Why did Elohim wrestle all night with Jacob? Why not just wound him early on and save the time and trouble? What does this teach us about the long-suffering nature of Elohim, who will continue to strive with us and our fleshy tendencies and self-reliances, until we finally submit to him and recognize that only through him can we have real strength and victory, though we might end up physically lame in the process? Why the wrestling all night\u201ctill the breaking of the day\u201d? What does <em>night <\/em>and <em>breaking of day<\/em> represent metaphorically with regard to our spiritual walk? What does this teach us about faith, the struggles of this life and about not giving up until the very end when the blessings and dawning of a new day are about to break forth? There are many things to learn from this passage of Scripture about ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of his struggle, Jacob received the new name of <em>Israel<\/em> (verse 28). Through this struggle, he took a quantum leap spiritually and became a new man with a new identity. Has this ever happened to you? Don\u2019t we progress spiritually only out of crisis? \u201cThere is no gain where there is no pain,\u201d as the saying goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What were the positive results of Jacob\u2019s struggle? Verse 32 says of Jacob, \u201cas he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he limped upon his thigh.\u201d <em>Penuel<\/em> means \u201cfaces of El.\u201d Taking a little poetic license (at the <em>drash<\/em>, allegorical or third level of Hebraic biblical interpretation) here, we could paraphrase this verse as follows: \u201cAs Jacob emerged out of the darkness of self-reliance, the face of Elohim shined favorably upon him as he no longer relied on the flesh.\u201d Pause to reflect on this for a moment and take quick stock of your spiritual walk in the light of these words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who are some other notable Biblical characters besides Jacob who struggled with trying to achieve their divine mission through human means? How about Abraham with Hagar, Moses when he murdered the Egyptian, Samson, or Peter when he cut off the ear of the high priest\u2019s servant? Can you think of some others? What did these men learn about walking in the Spirit versus walking in the flesh?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now consider your own life. Have you ever struggled between doing your will versus submitting to the will and ways of Elohim? How did it go?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jacob-Wrestles-w-Self-AdobeStock_96382241-2-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Where are you at in the struggle of life?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way to know that there is higher way is to walk in the Spirit of Elohim through a spiritual relationship with Yeshua the Messiah and to learn about the heart, mind and will of the Creator. How to do we know how to do this? Simply this. By acknowledging the fact that our ways haven\u2019t worked out so well for us and that we need help from above. This involves repenting of our sin (i.e. going against the ways of Elohim), receiving Yeshua as our Lord and Savior, and then studying the words, ways and will of Elohim in the Bible, and by studying the lives and examples, both the failure and successes, of the people written about therein, and then by conforming our lives to the truth of the Bible. In this manner, we go from being a child of the darkness to becoming a child of the light (1 Thess 5:1\u20135) with a new awareness, a new identity\u2014an overcomer, a conqueror, and child or prince of El, like Jacob becoming Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genesis 32:28,<em> Jacob but Israel.<\/em><\/strong> <em>Jacob\/Ya\u2019acov <\/em>means \u201cheel snatcher\/holder or supplanter,\u201dwhile <em>Israel\/Yisra\u2019el <\/em>means<em> \u201c<\/em>Prince of El or El Prevails\/Prevailer with El.\u201d What can we learn about the change of Jacob\u2019s character as reflected in the changing of his name? Who is the focal point of the name and the initiator of the action in the first name \u2026 in the second name? What can we learn from this for our own faith walk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genesis <\/strong><strong>32:32,<\/strong> <strong><em>The muscle that shrank. <\/em><\/strong>Please notice that the sinew, representing the strength of Jacob\u2019s, flesh only shrank. It was not removed. What does this signify spiritually with regard to the redeemed man\u2019s old sin nature?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply this. At the point in one\u2019s spiritual journey when one is regenerated by the Spirit of Elohim, a person doesn\u2019t lose their identity, personality or soul (i.e. his mind, will and emotions).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What then happens to a person\u2019s soul? It must be transformed and renewed by the Spirit of Elohim to be conformed to YHVH\u2019s perfect will (Rom 12:2). One\u2019s soul (their mind, will and emotions or personality) will still try to assert dominance over their personal spirit or the spirit that resides inside of them, but one must learn to submit their soul and spirit to the Spirit of Elohim, that is, to the mind, will, ways and Word of Elohim, their Creator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul discusses the struggle between the soul and the spirit in \u00adRomans 7:14\u201325. This is the same struggle that Jacob faced in his dark night of the soul. There he died to his own will and finally submitted totally to that of his Heavenly King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Are you winning or losing in the wrestling match of life?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/are-you-winning-or-losing-in-the-wrestling-match-of-life\/',contentID: 'post-15937',suggestTags: 'Human Nature,Jacob Wresting,Struggle of Life',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 32:24, Wrestled with him. Why did Elohim wrestle all night with Jacob? Why not just wound him early on and save the time and trouble? 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