"Wrestling with God-how few know what it is! How few have ever had their souls drawn out after God with intensity of desire until every power is on the stretch" (Great Controversy pg. 621).
God may allow one to experience great humiliation in order to draw out one's faith and bring him to the point of abstaining from evil. The enemy is given permission to ravage the soul with ferocious and intrusive accusations and one's conscience is weighed down with an overwhelming sense of guilt and shame over his past sins. For every soul that should reach the highest level of sanctification and boldly claim righteousness the devil must make every brutal attempt to resurrect the old nature if he is to retain the right to deny the sacrificial atonment of Christ for one's life. It is in this state of humiliation and fear when one does not know who is friend or foe, and it is at that precise moment when God puts his hand on the shoulder of the sinner to assure him of his full pardon that he wrestles with God!
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