Jacob

God, please guide our meeting, be our real chairman, in all our hearts and minds, do us good. Let me be humble in this event, and you are the master of all the progress.

When Jacob had to see his brother Esau again, he prayed to you. He done all the preparation, the gifts, the servants. And at that night, alone in the ford of Jabbok, he met you.

He wrestled with you, and you struck his hip socket. But he wouldn’t let you go. His requested, “I will not let you go, until you bless me.”

You renamed Jacob as Israel, as he strived with God and humans, and have prevailed.

Jacob called that place Peniel for the memorial of your meeting with him. He said, “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

This is a real ambition: strive for your blessing.
Every time I heard Jacob's story, I thought of someone. He is ambitious and anxious. Lord, please, wrestle with him, and let him see you face to face. Give him a new name and heal all his painful wounds and cut. Let him strive for your blessing and get what he wants.

This morning assembly, Father shared your words, those about the servants who kept money for their master. You gave credit to both servants who earned as much as you gave in the same way exactly. Am I a good keeper of your gifts? Am I trying my best? Or I always ask for more without cherishing what I have?