Wrestling With God

Often enough we find ourselves in a wrestling match with God as Jacob did in Genesis 32: 23-33. It might be a search for what to do next in life, a problem at work, distress over the direction we see our children taking, or illness, the injustices we see all around us, or sometimes even the weather. We ask why, we try to tell God what to do, we complain, we wrestle with what we want as opposed to what God is asking of us or trying to show us. While we may feel that God has struck us in the hip socket, we continue to fight.
Jesus, dealt with the same issues in the human condition: illness all around him, poverty, gross injustices, and yes, those July days in Israel can be VERY hot! Yet, rather than wrestle God about the fate of humanity, he drove out the demons he encountered, preached about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of love, compassion and justice to all, and curing every illness and disease. "At the sight of the crowds, hi heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled an abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. '" (Mt 9: 37-38). US. We are the laborers he is asking to go out and do as he did, as best we can. Rather than wrestle with God about the why's or why do I have to's, we are to show the same love and compassion he did, and so bring about the healing of the ills that so bother us. If they are bothering us, it is a call to us to take action.
Bro. Rene