Your Name is Israel

Learn about how Jacob received the name Israel after having been touched by heaven in his dark night of reckoning. Consider how the presence of God in his struggle changed the nature of his person and that all who are “sons” born of Israel take their nature from this same quality of life. We are a people who have not suffered apart from God, but who have known His presence amid our suffering and prevailed because of it; we have seen His face and live because of Him.