Is anyone out there walking with a limp?

So we hang on until our fingers are blue and won’t let go. And then after days, weeks, months, and sometimes years of asking, and waiting and asking, and waiting—it happens: the healing, the breakthrough, the blessing. But we’re left with a limp.

Don’t be ashamed! Use your limp to tell someone about what God has done for you in your wrestling match with Him just like Jacob did. Use it as a reminder to yourself that God never leaves or abandons us. Better yet, take someone’s hand and limp along with them. Whatever you do, don’t begrudge the gift of the limp.

Scripture Reference: Genesis 32:24-31

This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break.

When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket. Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

“What is your name?” the man asked.

He replied, “Jacob.”

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”

“Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.

“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he

blessed Jacob there.

Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel,  and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.