wrestling with God:

wrestling with God:
wrestling with God:
We read in the bible the story of Jacob (Israel) wrestling with God. But what does that mean?
Can a man truly wrestle with God? Can you beat God? Jacob did. "quote." But how can you beat God?
I imagine the situation similar to when Jesus walked the earth. He was fully God but also fully human. I can imagine him wrestling in the natural with his contemporaries as a child and young man.
Did he always win? Of course not. There were those that were physically stronger than him or more skilled in wrestling.
Could he have wrestled with Peter or John? If he wanted. Would he have won? Who knows but probably not, they were probably physically stronger than him and would have most likely beaten him with relative ease.
Could he have called down angels to help him? Of course. On the cross he said if he wanted he could have called down 12 legions of angels to assist him. He was fully God and had all that the concept entails at his disposal.
But he didn't use it. He lived as one of us here on earth so we would have a possible model of how to live our lives.
I think that as with Jacob prevailing with God it is clearly possible that when God has manifested himself as human he is fully human and not a super human. He was, and is, like us.
Jesus was a real man and as such he was able to win and lose but through it all he did not sin. That is the model I want to follow. Not the model of a God that I can never really compare to but that of a man like me. A man that has physical limits and still lives his life for God.