There are many Bible stories that you weren’t told at Sunday School and when you read them you can see why. But if we believe that the Bible is God’s Word we need to seek to understand these “messy” stories, like Tamar and Judah in Genesis 38 and may find that they help us with the messy parts of our own lives.
Can a leopard change his spots, can we change in some spots or in anyway. As we learn of Jacob wrestling with God we may have to wrestle as to whether we are willing to change.