How can we be ‘sober and vigilant’ knowing our adversary the devil roams about like a roaring lion? By keeping our hearts perfect toward The Lord!
And by exercising our nuclear option and that is to Resist him-
1 Peter 5:9
“ Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. ”
And James 4:7
“ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ”
*Jacob
He physically wrestles with The Lord; Who wrestles with man.
Genesis 32:24-30
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled A Man (The Lord Himself) with him until the breaking of the day. And when He saw that He prevailed not against him, He touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jaco b’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with Him. Here we see The Lord changing Jacob’s name to Israel ‘He wrestles with God’ . This depiction and now mirror of The Lord’s willingness to struggle with us, to be persistent with and for us; and The Lord’s eventual blessing to those who remain in Him. Jacob; God wrestles with, and for us. I consider Genesis 6:3 as a comparative understanding of this example, in that God does strive with people; Here in the days of Noah the Lord says: “ My Spirit shall not always *strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
*Diyn : Hebrew word meaning: to rule; judge; contend; strive; plead.
8
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker