Through the lens of Young adult

There is a season every adult eventually has to walk through, and Genesis 32 names it. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak (Gen 32:24).

The Jabbok night is the season where the thing you have been avoiding catches up to you, and you can’t keep running. Maybe it is a faith you haven’t really owned yet — your parents’ faith, your church’s faith, your friend’s faith — that you finally have to wrestle into your own. Maybe it is a sin you have not stopped pretending isn’t yours. Maybe it is a question about who you are that you can’t keep punting on.

Most of us would rather avoid the Jabbok. But avoiding it is how you become forty without ever having had a faith of your own.

The good news is the Father does not show up at the Jabbok to crush you. He shows up to wrestle with you. That is wildly intimate. He is willing to spend the whole night with what you are afraid to name.

One small thing today: name your Jabbok. Name the thing you have been crossing the river to avoid. Then sit by it for ten minutes. Don’t fix it tonight. Let the Father know you are willing to wrestle.