God comes down to scoundrels

Sunday October 21st , Genesis 32: 22-23 But during the night he got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He got them safely across the brook along with all his possessions. 24-25 But Jacob stayed behind by himself, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he couldn't get the best of Jacob as they wrestled, he deliberately threw Jacob's hip out of joint. Jacob was a scoundrel, he manipulated his brother to get the inheritance and blessing and then had to run for his life. In crossing the ford of the Jabbok, he was entering into unknown territory. His belief and the belief of others of the day was that God was regional and venturing beyond the Jabbok meant you were venturing beyond the reach of the God of Abraham. We often sing the song of climbing Jacobs ladder, but in the story what we find is that Jacob stays on the ground, it is the messenger of God that comes down the latter. God always comes down, in creation, to Abraham, to the scoundrel Jacob, in Christ and in the last days, in the New Jerusalem, God always comes down. In our lives too, God comes down, to us, even when we are scoundrels. When God comes down, we too find our lives changed.