「只剩下雅各一人，有一個人和他摔跤，直到黎明。」－創世記32:24
神化身為人子，以人的形像與雅各摔跤，為要制服並除掉雅各老舊、天然的生命。
在黎明破曉之前，神勝過了雅各，使他站不起身，踉嗆的跌在神的雙臂中；他索性抓住神不放，直到神願意賜他祝福。
於是，一個新的生命因此誕生，從屬地、屬人、天然的生命，走入屬天、屬神、並變化過的生命。
雅各一早爬起來，發現他成了一個軟弱、傷殘的人，但神卻用屬天的聲音向他宣告說：「你的名不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列；因為你與神與人較力，都得了勝」（28節）。
神正用這種方式引領你嗎？你明白了這些嚴厲的試驗、艱苦的環境、和無以忍受的景況；這些讓你不能活著沒有祂，卻還不夠被祂充滿而得勝的經歷嗎？
噢！快快轉向雅各的神吧！讓自己無依無靠地倒在祂腳前，死心塌地躺在祂慈愛的雙臂中；然後你便可以像雅各一樣站起身來，得到神全足供應的大能。
走出狹長難行處境的唯一出路，就是向山頂走去；你需要不斷向上攀爬，直到你對神有全新的經歷。
願你能進入雅各的大能者向你所啟示的一切！
－唯有神
"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day" (Gen. 32:24).God is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in human form pressing down and pressing out the old Jacob life; and ere the morning broke, God had prevailed and Jacob fell with his thigh dislocated. But as he fell, he fell into the arms of God, and there he clung and wrestled, too, until the blessing came; and the new life was born and he arose from the earthly to the heavenly, the human to the divine, the natural to the supernatural. And as he went forth that morning he was a weak and broken man, but God was there instead; and the heavenly voice proclaimed, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."
Beloved, this must ever be a typical scene in every transformed life. There comes a crisis-hour to each of us, if God has called us to the highest and best, when all resources fail; when we face either ruin or something higher than we ever dreamed; when we must have infinite help from God and yet, ere we can have it, we must let something go; we must surrender completely; we must cease from our own wisdom, strength, and righteousness, and become crucified with Christ and alive in Him. God knows how to lead us up to this crisis, and He knows how to lead us through.
Is He leading you thus? Is this the meaning of your deep trial, or your difficult surroundings, or that impossible situation. or that trying place through which you cannot go without Him, and yet you have not enough of Him to give you the victory?
Oh, turn to Jacob's God! Cast yourself helplessly at His feet. Die to your strength and wisdom in His loving arms and rise, like Jacob, into His strength and all-sufficiency. There is no way out of your hard and narrow place but at the top. You must get deliverance by rising higher and coming into a new experience with God. Oh, may it bring you into all that is meant by the revelation of the Mighty One of Jacob!--But God
