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Not by wrestling, but by clinging
- Not by wrestling, but by clinging
Shall we be most blest;
Wrestling only brings us sorrow;
Clinging brings us rest. - When we stay our feeble efforts,
And from struggling cease,
Unconditional surrender
Brings us God's own peace. - Lean we all our weight on Jesus,
Who alone can save;
He by might of love hath triumphed
O'er His willing slave. - Yielding, we shall know true conquest;
Dying, we shall live;
"Not my will, but Thine" prevaileth,
Victory to give.
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Sept. 2, 2011ElizabethSpokane, WA, United StatesThank you, Isaiah. It wasn't clear to me what the wrestling meant until I read your comment! Praise the Lord that we can help each other come closer to our Lord by sharing our insights and our love for Him.
Sept. 22, 2008Isaiah TorSydney, NSW, AustraliaThe writer of this hymn portrays oneness with Christ in terms of deep spiritual intimacy and dependence on Him in every single way. To "wrestle" here implies the energies of the flesh, as opposed to those of the mingled spirit. To "lean" is to resign all our efforts and resources to take Him as everything to us. Surely this requires us to yield to Him completely. But for this to happen we need to die to self, and have our natural energy, the strongest part of our natural being, made fundamentally "lame" so that we with our Jacobite nature may become the transformed and matured Israel where our very being so gained and saturated by the Lord is "victory".