The Ford of Jabbok (Part 2):Your Limp, A Sign Of His Love

Posted on January 31, 2025

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The Ford of Jabbok (Part 2):Your Limp, A Sign Of His Love

This second part, culled from Our Daily Bread, an article by Mike Whittmer, is meant for you to accept His love, sometimes tough love, and live! Don’t brush this off; reflect on it.

**Faye touched the scars on her abdomen. She had endured another surgery to remove oesophageal-stomach cancer. This time doctors had taken part of her stomach and left a jagged scar that revealed the extent of their work. She told her husband, “Scars represent either the pain of cancer or the start of healing. I choose my scars to be symbols of healing.” It was a permanence she had to live with.

Jacob faced a similar choice after his all-night wrestling match with God. The divine assailant wrenched Jacob’s hip out of socket, so that Jacob was left exhausted and with a noticeable limp. Months later, when Jacob massaged his tender hip, I wonder what he reflected on?

Was he filled with regret for his years of deceit that forced this fateful match? The divine messenger had wrestled the truth out of him, refusing to bless him until Jacob owned up to who he was. He confessed he was Jacob, the “heel grabber” (SEE GENESIS 25:26). He’d played tricks on his brother Esau and father-in-law Laban, tripping them to gain advantage. The divine wrestler said Jacob’s new name would be “Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome” (32:28).

Jacob’s limp represented the death of his old life of deceit and the beginning of his new life with God. The end of Jacob and the start of Israel. His limp led him to lean on God, who now moved powerfully in and through him
—**Our Daily Bread

Get out of your valley in the renewed strength, learning to manage well your centre of power, using the same for the purpose God granted it to you. Begin the new year soaring in the power of a prince with God! Shalom.

Pastor Afolabi Oladele

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