Genesis 32:24–32; Job; Psalm 13; Habakkuk 1; Luke 18:1–8; Matthew 26:36–46
What do you do when you have prayed with everything in you – and heaven has said nothing at all?
In this episode we step back from the Genesis narrative to ask what it really means to wrestle with God.
We discover a Bible full of believers who argued, questioned and complained – Abraham bargaining for Sodom, Job demanding a hearing, Habakkuk crying “how long” – and a God who never once silenced them.
We look at the lament psalms, where roughly one song in three is a cry of pain that God Himself authorised…, and we draw the vital line between wrestling with God and walking away from Him.
Jacob leaves the Jabbok with a blessing and a limp, because the wound and the blessing arrive together.
And it all comes to a point in a garden called Gethsemane, where the only perfect prayer that was ever prayed, received the answer “no” ….
And on a cross, where His Son cried “Father…, why have you forsaken me?”
Into a silence so total that ours can never be abandonment.
He was cut off, so that we never would be.
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