John 1:43-51
"Behold, truly an Israelite. The Lord's greeting presupposes that Nathanael had gone under the fig-tree to meditate. While there he had been wrestling with God. This new movement, this new teacher – are they to be welcomed as from God?...and so long ago Jacob the supplanter had wrestled with God and had one the new name Israel (Genesis 32:24-29). The Lord hails this son of Israel as one in whom the Jacob-element of guile is not to be found.
"Whence thou knowest me? How can you so intimately enter into my secret thoughts?
"Before Philip called thee. My sympathy had reached you before your friend broke in with the news that so strangely chimed in with your thoughts."*
With what, or who, are you wrestling with in your life? Might it really be Jesus with whom you are wrestling? If so, rejoice, for that is how close your Lord and Savior is to you.
*From Readings in St. John's Gospel, by Archbishop William Temple
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