We might expect religion to...
We might expect religion to make our life with God easier. That wasn't the religion of
Jesus, of Jacob, or the religion offered in the Bible. As life is a struggle, so our
relationship with God can be a struggle. For every person who zips through life with few
problems convinced God is the source of such ease, there's all the rest of us who struggle.
Yet, our struggle isn't senseless.
Jacob comes limping away from Peniel knowing something more about a God who cares
enough to struggle with him. Harry Emerson Fosdick, great preacher and teacher