The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever Hebrews 13:8
Yesterday — “In time past…” (Ephesians 2:11)Today — “But now in Christ Jesus…” (Ephesians 2:13)Forever — “In the ages to come…” (Ephesians 2:7) also " I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.(Revelation 1:8)
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."
Hebrew Word Study - Welding Yourself to God - Batach
Hebrew Word Study - Welding Yourself to God - Batach Beth Teth Cheth.
Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."
In my 17 years of teaching Hebrew in Bible College every year in my advanced Hebrew class we started out the year translating Proverbs 3:5-6. Every year some student would come up with a rendering I had never considered but was still a correct translation. Often this new spin would come from one of my international students. I had exchange students from Russia under Perestroika who grew up under the oppression of communism where they as their parents paid a price for their faith. They understood this passage in a way I could never understand it. You see, the Word of God is a well that will never run dry.
After all these years, I am still learning. I recently read a story about a 19th Century missionary to Africa which gave me, not a new insight into this passage but a deeper understanding.
A young 22 year old woman was enjoying a holiday at the beach with her husband and four year old daughter. At the beach they heard the cries of young boy who was drowning. This woman's husband did not hesistant to jump into the water to save the child only before the eyes of this young wife and daughter he and the struggling boy were swept away and both drowned.
Not only did this woman lose her husband and father of her daughter but there were no safety nets in those days for young widows. They struggled just to avoid starvation.
One day there was no food in her house and she had no money. She told no one of her struggle but she and her young daughter went to God in prayer. The next morning she found a box of food and some money at her door step from some unknown person who wished to remain annyomous.
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After this even Louisa M.R. Stead wrote these words:
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to take Him at his word,
Just to rest upon His promise
And to know, "Thus saith the Lord."
What is it to trust in the Lord? The word trust in Hebrew is
Batach which is a word used for welding. Archaeologist have discovered a primitive form of welding that dates back to 1,000 BC in Egypt. Welding is the process of melting metal together and then uniting the two units together by pressing and hammering. It is said a perfect weld will hold a joint together such that other parts of the metal will break before the weld will.
Louisa and her daughter trusted, batach themselves to God and united with God through much pressing and hammering. In their own understanding they could not imagine food and money just appearing on their doorstep, it was beyond their understanding but they did not lean to their own understandings, they just acknowledge God in all their ways.
God took care of them. Earlier in Louisa's life she wanted to be a missionary to China, but could not go as she was sickly, yet as they continued to acknowledge God in all her ways she did end up serving God as a missionary in Africa.
This welding yourself to God is not an easy process, you must pass through the fires, endure much pounding and hammering to achieve that perfect weld and melt yourself into God.
I shared more on "trust/batach" in a related topic last night in our weekly Bible Study. Watch the recording here and we hope you can join us live some time.: www.hebrewwordstudy.com
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In my 17 years of teaching Hebrew in Bible College every year in my advanced Hebrew class we started out the year translating Proverbs 3:5-6. Every year some student would come up with a rendering I had never considered but was still a correct translation. Often this new spin would come from one of my international students. I had exchange students from Russia under Perestroika who grew up under the oppression of communism where they as their parents paid a price for their faith. They understood this passage in a way I could never understand it. You see, the Word of God is a well that will never run dry.
After all these years, I am still learning. I recently read a story about a 19th Century missionary to Africa which gave me, not a new insight into this passage but a deeper understanding.
A young 22 year old woman was enjoying a holiday at the beach with her husband and four year old daughter. At the beach they heard the cries of young boy who was drowning. This woman's husband did not hesistant to jump into the water to save the child only before the eyes of this young wife and daughter he and the struggling boy were swept away and both drowned.
Not only did this woman lose her husband and father of her daughter but there were no safety nets in those days for young widows. They struggled just to avoid starvation.
One day there was no food in her house and she had no money. She told no one of her struggle but she and her young daughter went to God in prayer. The next morning she found a box of food and some money at her door step from some unknown person who wished to remain anonymous.
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