“And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.”
The man asked him: what is your name? I am Jacob, he answered. The question — what is your name — echoes Genesis 27:18, when Jacob lied and said Esau. Here Jacob answers with his own name: I am Jacob, the heel-grabber, the supplanter. The honesty of the answer is the beginning of transformation. The application: the moment of transformation begins with honest self-identification. Jacob says I am Jacob — not Esau, not someone better — himself.
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