God the wrestler? That’s exactly who Jacob needed to tested by.
God as wrestler – someone who chooses to meet us when we are stuck, who chooses to keep grappling with us until something changes inside us for the better. None of us would dream that image up for God, and yet it is in Scripture, and it was Jacob’s lived experience. I...
Blessings still work in messy family situations. Jacob and Rebekah get the blessing through trickery.
Jacob is one of the few people in the Bible where we get a good long look at his actions, and his character. He is hardly a great role model, and yet he is shown to us, warts and all. Scripture does not airbrush him into looking good. I find it a great comfort and a...
A difficult pregnancy and difficult twins. Esau and Jacob.
Rebekah in Genesis 24 is an ultra-competent, confident young woman, ready to accept marriage to Isaac. God had promised Abraham and Sarah land, their own child, and blessings to the whole world through their descendants. Twenty years of not getting pregnant would have...
