創世記32:22-32

32:22 他夜間起來，帶著兩個妻子，兩個使女，並十一個兒子，都過了雅博渡口，
32:23 先打發他們過河，又打發所有的都過去，
32:24 只剩下雅各一人。有一個人來和他摔跤，直到黎明。
32:25 那人見自己勝不過他，就將他的大腿窩摸了一把，雅各的大腿窩正在摔跤的時候就扭了。
32:26 那人說：「天黎明了，容我去吧！」雅各說：「你不給我祝福，我就不容你去。」
32:27 那人說：「你名叫甚麼？」他說：「我名叫雅各。」
32:28 那人說：「你的名不要再叫雅各，要叫以色列；因為你與上帝與人較力，都得了勝。」
32:29 雅各問他說：「請將你的名告訴我。」那人說：「何必問我的名？」於是在那裡給雅各祝福。
32:30 雅各便給那地方起名叫毘努伊勒（就是上帝之面的意思），意思說：「我面對面見了上帝，我的性命仍得保全。」
32:31 日頭剛出來的時候，雅各經過毘努伊勒，他的大腿就瘸了。
32:32 故此，以色列人不吃大腿窩的筋，直到今日，因為那人摸了雅各大腿窩的筋。

 ²² That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. ²³ After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. ²⁴ So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
²⁷ The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
²⁸ Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,^[f] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
²⁹ Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
³⁰ So Jacob called the place Peniel,^[g] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
³¹ The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,^[h] and he was limping because of his hip. ³² Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

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    上帝和人摔跤，人當然是無法勝過上帝，但是上帝樂意扶持祂所愛的人，故意輸給他，就像上帝在這裡故意輸給雅各。所以，贏的還是上帝，並不是雅各！這是出上帝無比的愛！

    正如上帝愛世上的人，故意讓祂的愛子耶穌基督為世人的罪死在十字架上，使世人可以得拯救與祂和好，滅去人和上帝之間的冤仇。而主耶穌也明白上帝的心意，所以沒有行神蹟從十字架上下來，情願死在十字架上，好完成上帝的旨意，使世人可以得救！

    所以，我們不能以小小的腦袋來明白上帝在基督裡對世人的愛，我們當存感謝的心，來跟隨主耶穌，因為耶穌基督不僅死在十字架上，更是在第三日後，從墳墓中復活，使人肯定祂是上帝的義，並且要將這個義賜給我們！