07/24/2026
A question from today's devotional reading:
"Do I Matter?
Out of the dark pounced, the "Man" with a capital M, for this was no common man. Trough the night to two fought, until the Man decided to settle the matter once and for all. With a deft jab to the hip, the an left Jacob writhing. The jolt cleared Jacob's vision, and he realized, "I'm tangling with God. He grabbed hold of the Man and held on for dear life. "I will not let You go unless You bless me! he insisted (Genesis 32:26).
What are we to make of this? God in the mud. A tooth-and-nail fight to the finish. Bizarre. But the blessing request? I get that part. Jacob was asking, "God, do I matter to you?"
I would ask the same question. Given a face-to-face encounter withe the Man, I'd venture, "Do you know who I am? In the great scheme of things, do I count for anything?"
So many messages tell us we don't. We get laid off at work, turned away by the school. Everything from acne to alzheimer's leaves us feeling like the girl with no date to the prom.
We react. We validate our existence with a flurry of activity. We do more, buy more, achieve more. Like Jacob, we wrestle. All our wrestlings, I suppose, are merely asking the question: "Do I matter?"
All of grace, I believe, is God's definitive reply: "Be blessed, my child. I accept you. I have adopted you into my family,"
You matter to God."
Amen!
God Is With You every day
Max Lucado
