Wrestling Before God

"And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose."  -Romans 8:28

My grandchildren like to wrestle.  The little one is sturdy and strong, but he's 2 years younger and smaller.  I standby watching for the right moment to intervene before someone gets hurt.  Oswald Chambers has something to say about wrestling with God: "Don't!"  You'll always get hurt. . . .

You have to wrestle against the things that prevent you from getting to God, and you wrestle in prayer for other souls; but never say that you wrestle with God in prayer, it is scripturally untrue.  If you do wrestle with God, you will be crippled all the rest of your life.  If, when God comes in some way you do not want, you take hold of Him as Jacob did and wrestle with Him, you compel Him to put you out of joint.  Don't be a hirpler in God's ways, but be one who wrestles before God with things, becoming more than conqueror through Him.

Chambers says we are not to be like a jelly-fish saying, "It's the Lord's will."  Instead we must wrestle before God with the things we do not understand so that we can lay hold of His strength in order to meet the challenge.

I am grateful that I can trust God to give me what I need to meet life's challenges.