Father Jacob Lyrics

(Genesis 32:22-32)

Oh, the nights of dark despair:

Anxious thoughts your only prayers.

When you're mind is scattered, lost,

As your past claims its cost.

Jacob went to be alone,

Caught in struggles that chilled his bones,

And the feeling of being uncertain

What lies behind morning's curtain.

Father Jacob,

Once a fraud,

Struggles for a blessing:

Wrestles God.

So, this stranger wrestled him:

Hours of a desperate grip.

But unable to overpow'r him,

The stranger simply touched his hip.

Father Jacob,

Once a fraud,

Struggles for a blessing:

Wrestles God.

Why is it that we think of struggle as a sign of a lack of faith

When the people called to be God's treasure have struggle written into their name?

Father Jacob,

Once a fraud,

Struggles for a blessing:

Wrestles God.

Father Jacob,

Once a fraud,

Struggles for a blessing:

Israel.

Israel.