This is the chief challenge for us. When we’re wrestling and struggling in a cursed world, our struggles feel more real to us than God. Laban’s tricks are more real to us than God. Esau’s fury is more real to us than God. Barrenness and infertility is more real to us than God. When Rachel cries out to Jacob, “Give me children or I die!” she is showing that Jacob is more real to her than God. When Jacob responds to her in anger, “Am I in the place of God?” He is acting as though Rachel is more real to him than God. Wrestling with God means that he becomes most real to us.
