Bible Wonders - Heritage

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? Enough. So, we're starting a whole new series, Bible Wonders with Robbie, the Christian car guy this morning. As I did the Prepare Ye Room at the end of last year, I thought that was really fun, and you know, every morning I get up and I get a chance to wonder with God, so I thought I would begin to share some of these when God puts it on my heart to do that.

So, very fun this morning. I was working on a show I'm doing with the Masculine Journey radio show on sort of the difference between heritage and legacy. And so, as you begin to look at those words in Hebrew, and I'm going to post these in the show notes of this episode, if you look at the word heritage, in the Hebrew language they use letters that were originally pictures of things. And so, the first letter in the word heritage is what they call a nun. And a nun, if you were to look at the picture, it's a seed, like a plant that you would seed. And it's really cool to wonder about because, you know, when you think about your heritage, you know, clearly we all came from a seed.

It's a beautiful thing. And so, it's also synonymous with faith almost in the Bible. And so, that nun is showing us that our heritage has to do with faith and it has to do with a seed that's been planted. The next letter is a tav, not to be confused with a tav, which means goodness, but a tav, the last letter in the Hebrew language.

And it almost means like God's stamp. Like, you're going to know the truth at the end of the story, and so it's also very synonymous with truth. And so, when it is to your heritage, you know, there is a story being told and, you know, we tend to hear those, you know, after the story's been finished. And so, your storage, your story, your heritage is going in both directions.

You've inherited a heritage and you're obviously creating one. And it's kind of cool that in the middle of that, right, seed that there will be an end of the story. Well, the really cool thing is that, you know, in heritage, from my perspective, there's a letter lamed, which has this little, like, picture of someone's heart yearning for God.

It also means learning. But it's very much the letter that kind of means a child, because when you look at the word child in Hebrew, you would actually pronounce it valid and that la, la sound is the lamed. And when you think about your heritage, there's a seed that is going to end up being the end of the story, and there's this child. That child-like faith is so much pictured in our heritage. And so, as I was processing that this morning, I couldn't help but note the word heritage ends in a hay, which means, to an extent, an expression. So, we're expressing this seed that's got an end of a story that has this child-like heart. And there's also a sense in the letter hay of repentance. In other words, there's a way back to God. And so it is with our heritage, no matter where our ancestors landed, our story can end up in repentance with God. And it seems to be the challenge of every generation to bring the gospel back, especially in our own lives, so that people can see it. So again, I'm going to post this word heritage there at the show notes on this particular episode, and I hope you enjoyed wondering with me today about the word heritage. Do we ever wonder? I do.