"Will you just TRUST Me?"

Allow me to introduce you... To a God who will go down into the nitty, gritty, rough and tumble of our crazy lives. Who meets with us in a personal way, comforts us, challenges us, resists us, encourages us and deals us loving blows of correction that will humble us where and when we need it. He is willing to wrestles with us when we are wrestling with our personal problems, our fears, doubts and uncertainties.

We see this in Jacob’s wrestling match with the angel of the Lord in Gen. 32.

 From the beginning, of Jacob's life...like you and me, God called him, he had a purpose for him...

God had given the promise that the elder (Esau) would serve the younger (Jacob). But rather letting God fulfill his promise, Jacob’s story has been one of his efforts to fulfill this on his own. 

(Genesis 28:13-15)

But even, with the countless encounters with the lord, Jacob still "cheated" his way to being blessed. Yet the lord had promised to bless him. 

Up until, he was left alone with the lord... Who wrestled him an entire night for a blessing. On verse 25 of chapter 32... Jacob's  thigh bone was dislocated during the wrestling match. A blow to Jacob’s strength.

God wanted to bless him,but He had to deal with him and even resist him..because he was relying on his own strength. 

The lord asked me to tell you,"let be and be still, He is God"

stop trying on your own strength... Because like Jacob he will frustrate your strength... Until you learn to completely trust him.

That's the God I serve. 

Psalm 46:10( read in amplified version)