Wrestling with the Almighty

I heard an AWESOME radio program about Jacob the other day.. I found this other article today and it really struck home some points. 


**Have you been struggling? Looking for success? Longing to find that someone special in your life? Searching for that elusive something that will fill the emptiness of your soul? With what have you been struggling? Who is your opponent? Is it a person? Or a situation? Or something about yourself? Whatever you have thought it to be, that is not the object of your true struggle. Your true struggle is with Him. It is with the same One with whom Jacob struggled. It is with the One who comes...
- in the dead of the night.
- in the life of loneliness.
- in the doubt of despair.
He comes and He confronts you and before you realize it, you are wrestling with him in a titanic struggle.
What kind of struggle is it? It is a struggle for that which God has for you. "Lord, why don’t you just hand it to me?" He answers, "Because you won’t hold to it if I do." What God wants for you is to hunger and thirst for that which He has for you. He wants you to want... What? What is the goal of this struggle? What is the prize for which Jacob has been toiling his entire life?
It is the realization of the promise of God. Jacob wanted what God had for him. And God wants you to want that, too. What is it? What does God want you to want? What is the prize? What is the goal? It is God Himself.
13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14).