Wrestling ...

Paul was a top of the line religious man, rated top of the line by the world but not necessarily by God. When he met Jesus on the road of his life one day, he gave up all his top of the line respectability in order to follow Jesus. The result of that was going from being a respected leader to a persecuted follower of Jesus, from being a man who followed all the rules to one who challenged many of the rules. After doing so, Paul writes ...

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless, and we grow weary from the work of our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day. (1 Corinthians 4:11-13).

Paul, in essence, was following Jesus who gave up all that it means to be God to become human. With this thought in mind I am considering what must I give up this day in order to better follow God?

Such is wrestling with God.