Movement II

  • Wrestling Through the Night: Jacob and the God Who Wounds to Bless

    ByJobin

    *Wrestling Through the Night: Jacob and the God Who Wounds to Bless*
    _Faces of the Fast – Movement II, Post 3_

    🕯️ He went into the night self-sufficient and strategic.

    He came out limping.

    Jacob wrestled with God at the ford of the Jabbok all night long. And as dawn was breaking the mysterious wrestler touched the socket of his hip and wrenched it out of joint.

    With a dislocated hip Jacob was still holding on.

    *_”I will not let you go unless you bless me.”_*

    The wound and the blessing came from the same encounter. They could not be separated. He crossed the river into the morning carrying both of them together.

    Now stand that image beside what we are remembering this week.

    The risen Christ appears to His disciples and shows them His hands and His side. The wounds are still there. The Resurrection did not erase them. It transfigured them. The wounds of Good Friday are present in the glorified body of Easter Sunday. Still real. Still visible. Now luminous.

    Jacob’s limp and the wounds of the risen Christ are the same testimony in two different moments of salvation history. The blessing and the wound came from the same night. The glory and the marks came from the same Cross.

    Holy Week reflection on the blog now. On Jacob. On Gethsemane. On what it means to hold on through the darkness when you have run out of everything else.

    Full reflection on Seeking Theosis:

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    The God Who Sees the Unseen: Hagar in the Wilderness

    ByJobin

    🕯️ When was the last time you felt truly seen?
    Not noticed. Not assessed. Not judged.
    Seen. By name. In the actual place you were standing.
    Hagar was a servant woman in the wilderness with nowhere to go. And God found her at a spring and spoke her name before He said anything else.
    She gave Him a name in return. El Roi. The God who sees me.
    New Lenten reflection on the blog. On the God who sees into every wilderness. Every margin. Every place where a person sits feeling invisible.

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    The Promise and the Long Wait: Abraham and Sarah

    ByJobin

    *Faces of the Fast series* – _The Promise and the Long Wait: Abraham & Sarah_

    🕯️ God took Abraham outside in the dark. “Look up”, He said. “Count the stars if you can.”

    Abraham was old. Childless. Twenty-five years into a promise that had not yet been fulfilled. He looked up at the sky and chose to believe.

    Not because the evidence supported it. Because he had chosen to orient himself toward the One who had spoken rather than toward everything that contradicted it.

    The fourth reflection in Faces of the Fast is now on the blog. We move into Movement II of the series today.

    On Abraham and Sarah. On the long wait. On the laughter that was not the last word. On what it means to stand under the stars and say: I believe.

    It is a reflection for anyone who has been carrying something for a long time and has not yet seen it fulfilled. For anyone in the middle weeks of Lent when the freshness has worn off and the destination still feels distant.

    The One who made the promise is the same One who pointed Abraham to the stars.

    _Walking from Eden to the Upper Room. One biblical face at a time._ 🕯️