“Jacob Halted on His Thigh”

“And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.”  Genesis 32:31

November 22nd – “Jacob’s wrestling means that he did not want to go through the way he knew he must, he had to come to the end of the best of his natural self, to go to the ‘white funeral’ of his own wisdom, and he struggled in order not to. Then he came to the place where his wisdom was crippled for ever. “And he halted upon his thigh.” The symbol is expressive of what it looks like in the eyes of shrewd worldly wisdom to cast yourself unperplexed on God. When we cling to God we learn to kneel for the first time.

If you have never been to ‘Peniel’ you are sure to come across things that will put your human wisdom into a panic; if you have seen God face to face your circumstances will never arouse any panic in you. We run off at a tangent – anywhere but Peniel where we would see God face to face.”

(taken from “Still Higher For His Highest” by Oswald Chambers)