A New Walk

Jacob walked away from his night of wrestling with God, with a limp because of his hip being put out of joint. We also leave the wrestling match with what had been the strongest part put out of joint.  We walk away with a limp that requires a new dependence on the Lord, a dependence upon His strength and not our own.  We never walk the same again.

This reminds me of the following Scripture.  The woman came up from the wilderness where God had so worked in her life and she was so changed that she was unrecognizable.  She now walked in a place of dependence that she had never known. She walked into a deep love relationship with her Beloved.   

Song of Solomon 8:5-7 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. ⁶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. ^.