Our last full day here. Sad but happy to be able to go home too. It has been a long 17 days.
Today at church, we had service at the hotel. The discussion was on Jacob and how he wrestled with God. How God was the "man" in the story but Jacob didn't know it. And how God became man to show Jacob and teach him. God touched his hip so he left Jacob with a reminder of that night. After that night, Jacob walked with a limp. Our pastor raised a question: How many times have you dared to wrestle with God and God has "touched" you to leave you a reminder?" Those weaknesses only prove to us that God uses us in our weakness. God changed Jacob's name to Israel and he was the father of the 12 tribes; God blessed him. As he blesses us.
After church, some of us went shopping but I stayed back to pack since we are leaving tomorrow. Thank goodness. I was able to get it all into one suitcase! I was pretty shocked I could do it despite the extra stuff I am brining home! Once everyone was back, we went to lunch in Tela at Tela Marina. It is owned by the previous owners of the place we used to stay at in the past visits. We toured the aquarium and the research they are doing for the shore preservation. pretty amazing!
Now time for a siesta before dinner!
Genesis 32: 24-28
So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Bendiciones,
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