[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0820":3},"AUGUST 20\r\nAnd Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day (Gen. 32.24).\r\nGod is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God.\r\nIt was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant . It was God in\r\nhuman form pressing down and pressing out the old Jacob life; and\r\nere the morning broke, God had prevailed and Jacob fell with his\r\nthigh dislocated. But as he fell, he fell into the arms of God, and\r\nthere he clung and wrestled, too, until the blessing came; and the\r\nnew life was born and he arose from the earthly to the heavenly,\r\nthe human to the divine, the natural to the supernatural. And as he\r\nwent forth that morning he was a weak and broken man, but God was\r\nthere instead; and the heavenly voice proclaimed, \"Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou\r\npower with God and with men, and hast prevailed. \"\r\nBeloved, 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\r\neither 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\r\nsomething go; we must surrender completely; we must cease from our own wisdom, strength, and righteousness, and become crucified with\r\nChrist and alive in Him. God knows how to lead us up to this crisis, and He knows how to lead us through.\r\nIs He leading you thus? Is this the meaning of your deep trial, or\r\nyour difficult surroundings, or that impossible situation, or that\r\ntrying place through which you cannot go without Him, and yet you have not enough of Him to give you the victory?\r\nOh, turn to Jacob's God! Cast yourself helplessly at His feet Die to your strength and wisdom in His loving arms and rise, like\r\nJacob, into His strength and all-sufficiency. There is no way out of your hard and narrow place but at the top. You must get\r\ndeliverance by rising higher and coming into a new experience with God. Oh, may it bring you into all that is meant by the revelation\r\nof the Mighty One of Jacob! -But God.\r\nAt Thy feet I fall,\r\nYield Thee up My ALL,\r\nTo SUFFER. LIVE, OR DIE For my Lord crucified.",1783499793315]