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		<title>Weekly Wisdom: I Wrestled with Jacob and God Won</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I recently had a chance to revisit Jacob’s story in Genesis 27-28 as part of my attempt to read the Bible in a year. I knew Jacob was not one of my favorite people in the Bible but my dislike &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://myrosecoloredshades.com/2015/11/05/weekly-wisdom-i-wrestled-with-jacob-and-god-won/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>
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<p>I recently had a chance to revisit Jacob’s story in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+27-28&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Genesis 27-28</a> as part of my attempt to read the Bible in a year. I knew Jacob was not one of my favorite people in the Bible but my dislike for him grew even stronger as I read his story for the umpteenth time. Conniving, deceitful, self-promoting…these are a few of the words that come to mind when I think of Jacob. He not only took Esau’s birthright but tricked Isaac into blessing him instead of his brother. Even when God revealed Himself to Jacob in a mighty way thru a dream, he dared to put a condition on his relationship with God! He declares that God will be his God <em>if</em> He watches over him on his journey and provides for all his needs. And yet in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+1%3A2-3&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Malachi 1:2-3</a>, God says that “I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated. But why??? It doesn’t seem fair!<span id="more-8785"></span></p>
<p>As I wrestled with this question of why would God choose Jacob over Esau, I unwittingly found myself going down the predestination rabbit hole. I sought wisdom from notable theologians and preachers and read whatever I could google on the subject. I was relieved to find that many of them also struggled with the Jacob and Esau quandary that I found myself in. But even their articulate and carefully outlined exegesis could not settle the matter in my heart and mind.</p>
<p>It wasn’t until I read <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+11&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Romans 11</a> as part of my <a href="https://www.bsfinternational.org" target="_blank">BSF</a> bible study that God started to open my eyes and work in my heart, and drive home the message He wanted me to receive from the story of Jacob. My question of <em>Why Jacob?</em> became the realization of <em>Why me?</em> Am I not just like Jacob, an undeserving sinner, full of faults and shortcomings? And yet, God has chosen me as one of His children. As it says in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+3%3A9-31&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Romans 3</a>, no one is righteous, &#8220;for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” If anything, I should be grateful for Jacob because his example gives hope to sinners like me who, by God’s grace alone, are justified and brought into His redemption. God wanted to remove anything in me that even hinted at the idea of justification by merit, or any kind of initiative on my part. He knew that my prideful human nature would rear its ugly head whenever it got a chance so He had to hammer down the nail in that coffin. It was like He was playing whack-a-mole with my human pride.</p>
<hr /><p><em>As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. ~Gal 6:14 http://wp.me/p4Ea16-2hH</em><br /><a href='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp4Ea16-2hH&#038;text=As%20for%20me%2C%20may%20I%20never%20boast%20about%20anything%20except%20the%20cross%20of%20our%20Lord%20Jesus%20Christ.%20~Gal%206%3A14%20http%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp4Ea16-2hH&#038;via=myroseshades&#038;related=myroseshades' target='_blank' rel="noopener noreferrer" >Share on X</a><br /><hr />
<p>It was the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+11%3A33-36&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">doxology</a> in Romans 11 that finally settled the unrest in my mind and heart. It says:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!<br />
How unsearchable his judgments,<br />
and his paths beyond tracing out!<br />
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?<br />
Or who has been his counselor?”<br />
“Who has ever given to God,<br />
that God should repay them?”<br />
For from him and through him and for him are all things.<br />
To him be the glory forever! Amen.</p>
<p>The idea that God’s infinite wisdom is beyond my human comprehension is not new to me. It’s something that I’ve always adhered to in my mind, but it was the Holy Spirit that convicted my heart, thru this passage, to rest in God’s infinite wisdom and unchanging character when it comes to matters that don’t make sense in my limited understanding. I believe that God is sovereign in everything, and I trust in His divine judgment, His justice, His righteousness, His omniscience, and most of all, His love for His creation. As I submit to His will, my only hope is that, “As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%206:13-15&amp;version=NLT" target="_blank">Galatians 6:14</a>, NLT)</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I had driven by him several times during the summer. With cardboard sign in hand and a grimace on his face, he would stand there for hours with the hot sun shining down on him. I found myself always in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://myrosecoloredshades.com/2015/10/22/weekly-wisdom-when-you-feel-the-spirit-nudging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p>
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<p>I had driven by him several times during the summer. With cardboard sign in hand and a grimace on his face, he would stand there for hours with the hot sun shining down on him. I found myself always in a hurry to get somewhere so all I managed to do was to make a mental note to myself to stop by Target to buy him a cap and a cold drink and bring them over to him one of these days. Weeks went by and when I finally made my way back to that intersection, he was no longer there. <em>Another missed opportunity</em>, I thought to myself. <span id="more-8614"></span>I recalled all those times when I found myself in a situation where I could have done something but didn’t. <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+4%3A17&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">James 4:17</a></strong> comes to mind, “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.&#8221; I remember one time when I was waiting in line at the grocery store, the lady in front me was fumbling to find enough food stamps to pay for the items the cashier had diligently rung up. She didn’t have enough so she asked the cashier to take out a few items. I thought I was doing my part by waiting patiently for my turn. Now looking back on it, I think, <em>how could I have been so clueless and oblivious? Why in the world did I not offer to help pay for her groceries?!</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>it is sin for them. ~ James 4:17</strong></span></p>
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<p>Last weekend I drove by that corner again on my way to pick up my girls from their sleepover at grandma’s. There he was, with the same cardboard sign, but this time there was no hot sun, just a piercing autumn wind, and I could tell he was trying to stay warm under his jacket. I thought to myself, I have to do it this time. I would pick up the girls, buy some hot chocolate and bring it over to him on my way back. As I was getting closer to my parents’ house, I started to come up with all the excuses in the world not to go over there and talk to the man…<em>It’s really cold outside</em>…<em>It’s not safe for the girls</em>…<em>What if it&#8217;s all an act?</em>&#8230;<em>What if people stare?</em>…<em>I can always come back another time</em>… But I just couldn’t let it go. I felt the Spirit nudging me to just go talk to this man and as much as a part of me did not want to do it, I knew I had to do it. Before I could change my mind, I took the girls to Starbucks, bought hot chocolate for them and an extra grande with a pumpkin muffin for the new friend I was about to meet.</p>
<p>Even as I was driving back to that corner, part of me was wishing he had called it a day and left. But when I saw him standing there still, part of me was relieved. I parked as close to him as possible and told the girls to wait for me in the car. I walked over there with the hot chocolate and muffin in hand, having not a clue as to what I was going to say to him. I said hi and introduced myself and he did the same. I told him that I just came by to say hi and that if I were outside in this cold weather like him, I would want someone to bring me over some hot chocolate. He thanked me and we started chatting. Since his sign said that he was looking for work, I asked him if he had gotten any leads. He said he did but because of his criminal record, they fell through. As we continued to chat, what struck me most was that he repeated more than once, that it gets lonely. He mentioned that he tries to forget about it but inevitably, the loneliness comes back. We chatted some more and then I said I would keep an eye out for job opportunities and that I would pray for him.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>make the most of every opportunity. ~Colossians 4:5</strong></span></p>
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<p>I remember being discouraged by others in the past when I tried to make conversation with a homeless man back in NYC, where I used to live. I clearly remember a lady telling me not to encourage him. Doubts had crept into my own mind and heart one time when my husband decided to give money to a guy standing in the street asking for a little change to be able to get home. I remember chiding him for giving the man so much when he’s probably lying about his situation and will be using that money to buy alcohol or feed whatever addiction he has. I still recall my husband saying that it’s not our call to make. Discouragement and doubt will always find their way into these situations, but I just have to trust that God is sovereign and is in control, and that He can use our obedience for His glory. Let’s say that the man was indeed lying about his circumstances, I can only hope that kindness from people like us will get him a step closer to repentance.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the next step will be but I hope that my reaching out to that man in the corner brought a little warmth to his heart on that cold day. I&#8217;m hoping that I can go back and share God’s Word with him at some point and hopefully connect him with a church. More than anything, I’ve learned a few important lessons from this experience. When the Spirit nudges me to do something, all I can do is obey just as Paul was “compelled by the Spirit” (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+20%3A22&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Acts 20:22</a></strong>) to go to Jerusalem despite the difficulties that awaited him there. In <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+4%3A2-6&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Colossians 4:5</a></strong>, it says, &#8220;<span id="en-NIV-29548">Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.” I need to ask for God’s discerning spirit to keep my eyes and ears open for opportunities to serve Him in my day to day. As I continue to walk with Him and submit to His will, my hope is to become a slave to righteousness as it is described in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6%3A15-23&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank"><strong>Romans 6:17-18</strong></a>, &#8220;&#8230;<span id="en-NIV-28086" class="text Rom-6-17">though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.</span> <span id="en-NIV-28087" class="text Rom-6-18">You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.&#8221;</span></span></p>
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<p>I’ve been trying to write this post for the past couple of weeks and I find myself at a loss for words every time. Nothing I come up with seems to appropriately convey the magnitude of what I’m trying to express. Perhaps I still don’t have a firm grasp of the concept I’m trying to present. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to put it on paper (online) and I hope it helps to remind us of the awesome God we serve.</p>
<p>Is it perplexing to you that the God of the universe, the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God, who made the heavens and the earth and all living things, knows you and me by name, knows the number of hairs on our head and is familiar with all of our ways? <span id="more-8557"></span>Do you find yourself in awe of the One who was and is and is to come? Does this realization ever make you stop and think? That is what we are urged to do in the first chapter of <em>Crazy Love</em> by Francis Chan, a book we’re currently using as our church’s home group bible study. I was pleasantly surprised that this theme also came up in the introduction of our <a href="https://www.bsfinternational.org" target="_blank">BSF</a> bible study for this year, which is on the book of Revelation.</p>
<p>The idea of a majestic and intimate God presents a dichotomy that my mind can’t seem to fully grasp. As I read Scripture, I realize that it’s not a dichotomy but the reality of who our God is, whose indescribable nature makes me think of David’s words in <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A5-7&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 139:6</a></strong>, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.” Consider these parallels between His grandness and His closeness to us:</p>
<p>When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,… (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+8%3A3&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 8:3</a></strong>)</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia;">For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A13&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 139:13</a></strong>)</span></em></span></p>
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<p>The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+16%3A9&amp;version=NLT" target="_blank">2 Chronicles 16:9</a>, NLT</strong>)</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A1&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 139:1</a></strong>)</em></span></p>
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<p>The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+19%3A1-2&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 19:1-2</a></strong>)</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A4&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 139:4</a></strong>)</em></span></p>
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<p>He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A17&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Colossians 1:17</a></strong>)</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139%3A5&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 139:5</a></strong>)</em></span></p>
<p>God spoke everything into existence and could rule from afar if He so chose to, but instead He desires to be among His people. There is a reason He is called “Immanuel” or “God is with us.” We were reminded of this truth during our <a href="https://www.bsfinternational.org" target="_blank">BSF</a> bible study. In <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+2%3A1&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Revelation 2:1</a></strong> it says, “These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.” God is in control and is sovereign over us but He also walks among us.</p>
<p>This is a recurring theme in the Bible. As Moses led the Israelites to the promised land, God instructed them to build a tabernacle with the ark of the covenant so that He may dwell among His people. It says in <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+25%3A8&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Exodus 25:8</a></strong>, “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.” God then comes to dwell among us in the flesh thru His Son, Jesus Christ, as it is described in <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A14&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">John 1:14</a></strong>, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” And now we have the gift of God’s presence in the form of the Holy Spirit as Jesus had promised in <strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A26&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">John 14:26</a></strong>, “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”</p>
<p>The truth is mind-boggling. The God who says “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool,” (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+66%3A1&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Isaiah 66:1</a></strong>) chooses to have close fellowship with His creation. God made the ultimate sacrifice just so that we would be reconciled with Him and we have done nothing to deserve it. As I stop and think about this truth, I’m left with only one question in my mind and heart, “what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?&#8221; (<strong><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+8%3A4&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">Psalm 8:4</a></strong>)</p>
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For the Lenten season, I&#8217;m participating in the #SheSharesTruth weekly linkup where readers share the wisdom they&#8217;ve gained from the bible passage given by <a title="She Reads Truth" href="http://shereadstruth.com" target="_blank">She Reads Truth</a>. This week&#8217;s passage was <a title="1 Corinthians 2:1-5" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A1-5&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank">1 Corinthians 2:1-5</a>.</p>
<p><em><span id="en-NIV-28396" class="text 1Cor-2-1" style="color: #000000;">And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. </span><span id="en-NIV-28397" class="text 1Cor-2-2" style="color: #000000;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold;">2 </span>For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-28398" class="text 1Cor-2-3" style="color: #000000;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold;">3 </span>I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span id="en-NIV-28399" class="text 1Cor-2-4" style="color: #000000;"><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold;">4 </span>My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,</span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></em><span id="en-NIV-28400" class="text 1Cor-2-5" style="color: #000000;"><em><span class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold;">5 </span>so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.</em> (NIV)</span></p>
<p>When I became a Christian in my second year in college, my perspective on many things changed completely. The professors that I so highly revered did not seem as awe-inspiring anymore. I still respected them for their knowledge but their words, no matter how eloquent, no longer seemed to hold the same weight. I had found the ultimate truth and wisdom in the Word that was God-inspired. To me, the knowledge that the professors were imparting became merely book knowledge. Their words didn&#8217;t have the ability to grab at my heart and have a life-changing impact the way God&#8217;s Word often does.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to listen to many faith testimonies from ordinary individuals like me, both young and old. Somehow, many of these testimonies made a lasting impression on me. Listening to their life stories filled with God&#8217;s love and grace was not only encouraging but awe-inspiring and motivating. Their ordinary words became extraordinary lessons thru the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe this is what Paul is alluding to in this passage. God&#8217;s glory becomes ever so apparent when we are devoid of superfluous human wisdom because as Jesus reminds us, &#8220;My grace is<span style="color: #000000;"> sufficient for you, for my power</span><span style="color: #000000;"> is made perfect in weakness.&#8221; (2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV)</span></p>
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