The Wonder of Becoming Who You Are - From Genesis 12

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? The wonder of becoming yourself. Or are you ready to become who you are as they said in the trailer of the Robin Hood movie but fascinatingly in the book of Genesis chapter 12? Then you look at the very first verse. The Jews have a fascinating take on that, which is spectacular in my opinion. And when you look at this in Hebrew, you see something that maybe you've never seen before. It says in English, if you read that verse, it says, the Jews point out and very accurately that when you look at the Hebrew script on that, that it says, lech lech.

In other words, it's a lamed and a hoof. And the idea of that is aspire to desire. In other words, you are raised to what it is that you really want to become what you really know you want to be. And so, you know, you're asked from the time you're a little kid, what do you want to be when you what do you want to be when you grow up?

Well, what's your aspiration and what is your desire? And so that lech lech, of course, is translated here in English as because they're just taking the word from and so that they're taking the lech lech in English and just saying go out from but that that isn't even close to what the words actually in fact, they don't even interestingly, in the Strong's Concordance, they don't actually even translate the lamed hoof, they just say, anytime you say this, you just go what not available, what do you mean not available? So that's one way to do it. But when Rashi, he unpacks this in his commentary, he goes into a lot of what the Talmud says, and he's the one that says, and clearly, it's something to ponder that will you come unto yourself, and it all matches up very largely in their mathematical way of looking at things with the idea of Abraham was 100. Abraham was 100 when he had Isaac, which was really his potential. And so interesting when you do the numerology on lech lech, it equals 100. And so what that idea is there is to is that Abraham's potential was 10 times 10, which is 100. And that idea of 100 apps to actually be the letter particular thing that I was began to study and fall into it and go, Oh, isn't that fascinating, that that Abraham's name would be to become a father. And isn't this interesting that in order for him to become and have the potential to become who he was, he had to have this son in the Promised Land, so to speak, rather than where his father would be raising that and interestingly, that he would be separated from the world to extent as he moved away from what it was that his father's house was. And, and became a place where God would show him don't miss that part of the verse.

It's absolutely beautiful. So what I understand is I began to just really pray through this verse and ask God to show me what he really was meaning here, is that in order for you to really to aspire your desire, God is going to have to show you that's what's exactly that that like your territory, the where you think it is, and let me take you where you need to go. And then let me show you what it is you really want.

And I don't know about you. I don't know if you're at that point in your life, where God has taken you someplace where you had no idea where you were going. And then he began to show you what you really wanted. And then, and, you know, my story is clearly that way.

In other words, I was in the car business. That was my father's house. That was my father's land. That was his territory. He did it all his life. And to the end, he loved it.

Okay. And so I grew up in that and I stayed in it for literally 40 years till God finally pulled me out of it. And of some real shenanigans that were involved in that. But then he called me to do the Christian car guy show. In other words, he showed me what it was I really wanted, which what I really wanted scared me to death. I didn't aspire to be on the radio as I was, you know, but when God called me to it and I began to walk in that calling that he gave me, I began to realize the rejoicing of my heart that this podcast is actually just a fruit thereof of just loving to express the light that God has shown me through his word and being able to do that every week.

I do it all the time. And then I get to, you know, highlight other people that do that or see how God walks with all these things. I grew up and I love that idea of growing up because it is just everything to do with the letter Lamed. Right. And Lamed has to do with your heart. It's the first letter in the word heart. And if you look at it, it's got this, you know, it's it's the it's the highest letter.

In other words, the letter that goes above the line and it points to God. And so it's the idea of aspiring and the Lamed are very much connected. The letter Hoof is the crown. Right.

And that idea of of bringing the light down into the world and that whole idea of desire is a really cool, you know, thing. And when you look at the two letters, you know, the letter Hoof comes before the letter Lamed. And that letter Hoof is the number 20 and the letter Lamed is the number 30. And so it very clearly is 50 when you add the two together and you take the four letters. You know, you take that times two.

In other words, Lec Lec would then equal 100. OK, and so connected to his name, connected to his potential and certainly connected to leaving, you know, his father's house, so to speak, and coming into the Promised Land. All things to ponder as you can ponder your own story and how God will show you, obviously, or maybe not so obviously, God will show you what it is you aspire to. You aspire to desire.