He Wrestled God Until Sunrise and Refused to Let Go

Jacob was about to face the brother he'd cheated twenty years earlier. Alone by a river at night, a man jumped him. They wrestled until dawn.

The stranger touched Jacob's hip and dislocated it. Still, Jacob held on. 'I won't let you go unless you bless me.' The man asked his name, then renamed him Israel — 'wrestles with God.'

Jacob limped into the sunrise with a new name, a permanent reminder, and ran straight into his brother's arms instead of his sword.