Our pastor said something interesting today... The sermon was about Jacob wrestling with God. When Jacob asks God to bless him, he's asked, "What is your name?" I've heard before, and it was mentioned again today, that there was some confession involved in his answer... his name means deceiver and supplanter, and that is how he'd lived his life. However, today our pastor also pointed out that the last time he'd gotten a blessing, Jacob had lied about his name... saying that he was Esau in order to steal the blessing. I found that pretty interesting.
As an aside, he had his son come up on the stage. Joe (the pastor) isn't a wimpy guy or anything, but his college-age son is pretty big and pretty strong. So the kid stands behind his dad and grabs him from behind, leaving Joe unable to do much of anything except thrash his legs around. I think his point was that was Jacob's strength in relation to God's, but it got a bit lost in the general hilarity.
I looked at my 13 year old son, who's small for his age, and then at his 6'1" dad, and tried to imagine the coming role reversal. It's pretty weird!
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