This evening, my family and I discussed the wrestle that Enos had before God and the other righteous individuals who also wrestled with God or struggled with Him in some way, and when we talked about how odd it was that these righteous people had wrestled or struggled with God, I noted that fighting with someone doesn't always mean fighting against them. Sometimes, you're both fighting on the same side.
I imagine many of these instances as being metaphysical struggles, like how we might struggle with a difficult concept, how we might struggle to accept a difficult truth, or how we might struggle to resist temptation. In all these cases, God can struggle with us, not trying to stop us, but trying to help us.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12 And when we put of the Armor of God, we invite Him to wrestle against them with us.
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