Sweet Essence

A Blessing From You

"The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.  When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.  Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, " I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he said to him. " What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." Then he said, " Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and prevailed." Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, " For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."

Genesis 32: 22-30



Sometimes a song will bring to your heart a scripture that speaks to your very innermost being.   This happened last night when God blessed me with a song.  The song is, "My Hands Are Lifted Up/ Make Me Over " by Bri ( Briana Babineaux).  I never thought of worship as a way that we wrestle with God like Jacob did in Genesis but this song makes me see that or at least that we wrestle with ourselves to obtain that blessing.  Even if that blessing is just to be near Him.  Beautiful, He is so beautiful why wouldn't we try to strive for it even it brought forth pain.  
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