Wrestling

I know it's Easter this weekend but something else is on my mind. Have you ever wrestled with God? Genesis 32 has as interesting story about Jacob wrestling with God. Don't believe me? Read it for yourself. Apparently, Jacob put up a good fight going all night until finally, his hip was dislocated. The Bible says he walked with a limp from that day on.
I've been reading a book called Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell. In it, he invites us to "wrestle with God." There's a lot of difficult stuff in the Bible and sometimes, I know I have, we just accept it. It's what we've always been taught and we never question it. It just is. Take for example, Easter. Why did God have to send his Son to die a brutal death on a Roman cross? Why not just snap his fingers or wave a holy wand or something? I mean he SPOKE existence into creation. Why did Jesus have to die? And oh by the way, did he REALLY die? I mean if he was God incarnate, can God REALLY die? And how could he be God incarnate?
Don't miss my point; I'm not questioning the truth or authority of scripture, I'm just suggesting that we "wrestle" with it a bit. Might I add, like Jacob, we won't win and we may leave the fight limping but how awesome to walk away knowing that we "wrestled with God."