Wrestling With God

A blog I occasionally follow recently published an article entitled "Should We Ever Wrestle With God". His focused on how people often use the term "Wrestling With God" when they want their own will to overcome God's will. He rightful conclusion is that: "Wrestling with God so our will prevails is, Inconceivable."

However, there is another form of Wrestling With God, and it is one that all believers are called to (and many avoid). It is part of the process of conforming our heart and will to God's.

There are times I know intellectually that God's person, will and direction is what I need in a particular issue, but something in my heart isn't yet yielding. The wrestling is for my benefit - it is the process of God revealing whatever lie or unbelief is in my heart, and of him removing and dealing with that falsehood. It often involves a lot of "but God", and a lot of "I don't want to" (sounds like a 3-year-old). I have to stay in that place of wresting with God until he inevitably wins, and breaks thru the barriers that are in my heart. God's overcoming almost always results in deeper insights, freedom, and awe at His awesomeness.
It is wrestling with God, because I must make the continued choice to stay engaged - to wrestle with what God is saying and who he is and to allow the deep beliefs of my heart to be challenged. I enter (and continue to enter) the wrestling knowing who is going to win, and I choose to engage because I know that it is part of his process of maturing me and conforming me to his will.

Right now I am going thru a season of wrestling with God - wrestling with hurts, with wrong beliefs, with addictions, and with so much more. He is winning, he is overcoming, the reality of who he is is coming thru, but it is a slow, painful process. Every day I have a choice to make - do I choose to stay engaged and wrestle with God, or do I give up and take the easy escape.

I am choosing to stay engaged, to wrestle, because it is what He is calling me to, and where He is going. I would encourage you to do the same...