Episode 47 | Making Room 2: Learning to Wrestle with God

What do you do when you believe all the right things about God—His sovereignty, His goodness, His faithfulness—but your body is holding unexpressed emotions you won't acknowledge? In this episode, Christina shares her own revelation about blaming God for years while insisting she wasn't, and explores what it means to wrestle with God rather than perform for Him.Drawing from Jacob's all-night wrestle, Job's raw questions, David's honest psalms, and Jesus in Gethsemane, this episode reveals a profound truth: God doesn't punish honesty. He engages with it. The wrestle isn't what creates distance from God—the pretending is. And the wrestle itself? That's where intimacy deepens.If you've been spiritually numb, avoiding certain prayers, or maintaining religious activity while feeling disconnected from God, this episode offers both permission and a pathway forward. Learn to recognize unprocessed anger at God, discover biblical models of honest struggle, and receive practical invitations into the kind of wrestling that leads to deeper intimacy with your Father.Key Topics:Recognizing when you're angry at God (even when you insist you're not), Spiritual bypassing and the cost of performance-based faith, Biblical models: Jacob, Job, David, and Jesus, Psalm 56:8 and the Father's heart toward our struggles, Practical invitations into wrestling with God, The difference between wrestling and abandoning, Making room for honesty this DecemberScripture References: Genesis 32 (Jacob wrestling), Job (entire book context), Psalm 13, Psalm 22, Psalm 56:8, Psalm 88, Psalm 139, Luke 22:39-46 (Gethsemane)Related Episodes:Episode 44: Mental Health is Weird Part 1 - Reclaiming Embodied FaithEpisode 45: Mental Health is Weird Part 2 - How Healing Actually Works