Jacob Have I Loved

God called him the ‘man who would wrestle with God’

Courageous, afraid, or only a fool

To challenge the One by whom he became

His image, God’s chosen tool

The man whom the world chose to call cheat

In birth reaching out of the womb

Grabbing hold of a promise given before

Abram was laid in his tomb

“I have loved Jacob” and promised to him

The blessing of being My son

To love Me, and serve Me, and someday to know

The passionate love that would cripple his hip

As I cried out to him, ‘…simply let go’"

Had he asked, there was balm for his pain

There was healing, and comfort and peace

Though it took him a while, Jacob finally let go

The lesson his life’s story can teach

God’s mind was made up, and He never changed

He knew the heart of the man that He chose

Persecuted not forsaken, struck down not destroyed

 Through his family the Promise arose.