06/08/2026 – Day 162 – “The Gift of the Lahmed”/ The Divine Nonpossesive: “The Mission: Give up ‘having.’ Take no good thing today for granted, every blessing, even our life. And receive everything as a gift from God.”
“You told me that in Hebrew, the verb have doesn’t really exist,” I said, “that you can’t really have anything in this world. But then there has to be a way around it. There has to be a way of speaking about one’s possessions. the Bible uses the word “have.”
“In its translations, yes, But in the original, not really.”
“So then what does it say in the original that we translated as ‘to have’ ?”
Instead of answer the question he picked up a stick and began drawing a symbol in the sand.
“What is it?” I asked.
“It’s a lahmed, he replied. “The twelfth letter in the Hebrew alphabet. It is from the lahmed that comes the letter L. This is how you would communicate what we understand as ‘to have’ by using the lahmed. So to say ‘I have’ or ‘mine,’ you would use the Hebrew word li. To say ‘he has’ or ‘his,’ you would use the word lo. And to say ‘you have’ or ‘yours,’ you would use the word l’cha. So you can’t really have in Hebrew. But what you end up ‘having’ is better than having. The lahmed means to. So instead of saying ‘I have,’ you say ‘It is to me.’ And instead of saying ‘he has’ or ‘his’, you’re actually saying, ‘It is to him.’ In God you must live in accordance with the sacred tongue. That means giving up the idea that you ‘have’ in this world. But when you do that, when you give up the idea of having, then something miraculous will happen.”
“What?”
“Everything will become to you. When you ‘have,’ then that which you have cannot be given to you. But when you don’t ‘have,’ when you cease to ‘have,’ and everything in this world will become l’cha, a blessing from God to you … the gift of the lahmed.”
The Mission: Give up ‘having.’ Take no good thing today for granted, every blessing, even our life. And receive everything as a gift from God.
2 Corinthians 6:10; Ephesians 5:20; James 1:17“
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Comment: Let’s take a look at the verses, encouraging y’all to read the entire sections for each.
Under the section – “The Character of Paul’s Ministry: “… as grieving yet always rejoicing, as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything. (2 Corinthians 6:10)…” All verses: 3 – 11.
Under the section – “Consistency in the Christian Life”:
“… giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:20)…” All verses: 15-21.
Under the section – “Trials and Maturity:
“…Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning. (James 1:17)…” All verses: 2 – 18.
Soli Deo Gloria!