We Who Wrestle With God - Perceptions Of The Di... May 2026

And you will walk away—changed, wounded, and somehow whole.

There is a scene in the Book of Genesis that haunts the human imagination like no other. It is not the parting of the Red Sea, nor the burning bush, but a quiet, desperate struggle on the bank of the Jabbok river. A man, alone in the dark, grapples with a stranger until dawn. When the stranger dislocates his hip with a single touch, the man—Jacob—refuses to let go. “I will not let you go unless you bless me,” he demands. We Who Wrestle with God - Perceptions of the Di...

And the promise of the Jabbok is this: dawn always comes. The Stranger will not stay hidden forever. He may not answer your questions. He may not explain the suffering. But He will give you a blessing you cannot name until you feel it in your bones. And you will walk away—changed, wounded, and somehow whole

It means accepting that God is not a problem to be solved, but a person to be known. And like any person worthy of the name, He retains the right to be mysterious, to resist our categories, to wound us with love. A man, alone in the dark, grapples with