08/24/2026
TILLY just like Jacob when The Limp Became His Strength
In Genesis 32, we’re told the story of Jacob — a man who was literally injured by God and yet found his greatest strength through that wound. In the wrestling, the Lord touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, leaving him with a limp, but also giving him a blessing and a new identity.
Jacob walked differently from that moment on, not because he was broken, but because God used the injury to transform him, to slow him down, and to teach him a new way to move.
2 weeks ago we were soaking Tilly’s left front because of a stone bruise and now we are soaking and wrapping her right front from a tendon strain.
I truly believe Tilly’s injury carries that same divine purpose as Jacob’s — a slow‑down, a moment where God is reshaping her body, her balance, and her walk just like He did for Jacob.
Just like Jacob, Tilly has found herself in a season being shaped by a wound.
Her tendon strain has brought swelling, tenderness, and a sudden halt to our plans — we are soaking, wrapping, slow walking, and stretching her.
Where Tilly has not been ridden much in years, she didn’t yet have the strength or correct muscles to carry herself the way she was created to and that we have been riding her.
She is learning to lift her rib cage, engage her hind end, and drive from behind instead of pulling from the front which I believe has caused these set backs and injuries .
But this injury is becoming her turning point and mine !!
I can see God using this slow‑down to help me show her correctly how to strengthen what was weak, and to teach her a new way of moving and build the muscles she needs not by pushing her but reshaping her .
Her limp isn’t the end — it’s the beginning of her transformation, just like Jacob’s.
It’s a perfect picture of how God sometimes wounds to strengthen, breaks to rebuild, and marks us so we never walk the same again.
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.”
