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Wrestling with God

Do you ever feel like life is just against you?  Sometimes life is just plain and simply hard.  Have you ever felt like you were wrestling with God over answers, over problems, over issues??  Sometimes, I think we wrestle things out in our heads, like going over what we could have done differently or done better or could do better.  But did you realize that in the Bible, Jacob physically wrestled with the Lord?  I've been pondering on this lately and when things are hard, it is difficult to see what our next steps are or should be.  Sometimes we wrestle out our feelings or our attitudes and sometimes it is hard to listen to what God wants for us.   24  So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.   25  When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.   26  Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless