Jacob is now an old man, but God is still working in his life. Old age can be seen as a time to slow down and rest. But, more dangerously, it can also be seen as a time to coast, relying on past efforts and decisions. Yet we see in Jacob that even in old age, he was ready to respond to the Lord's leadership.

As Jacob faces his fear of his brother Esau and desperately attempts to appease him, he is doing all that he can to save himself. However, in Genesis 32:22-32, Jacob has an experience that will change his name and the rest of his life.

He sends his wives, children, and all he possesses over the stream Jabbok while he stays back to be alone. He thought that he would spend the night alone, but he would spend the night wrestling with God. At the end of the long night of struggle, Jacob would come to know two fundamental truths; he is weak, but God is strong.

But before God prospered Jacob's children to become patriarchs of great tribes or grew these tribes into a great nation, He first humbled a schemer and cheater named Jacob. He humbled Jacob so that he would know that he was weak, but God is strong. There is great grace when God wrestles with us that we, too, come to know that we are weak, but He is strong.