Hebrew Learning: Midway

This month was very productive as far as my Hebrew learning was concerned. In the past months, I was so busy with official work, family life and church life. I was so concerned that I lagged behind too much in my Hebrew learning as I was not able to cope with the tight schedule I was limited to. At one point, I even thought of quitting altogether. The learning seemed so tough, with much study and concentration required. Besides, I am not a translator anyway. I even used to wonder why on earth did I ever enroll in this Hebrew course. In fact, I even though of writing a letter to my instructors to forgive me for my slow progress and request them to give me more time to cope up with it. Thank God I did not do that. But anyhow, I am already a student, and I cannot quit now. I must keep sailing on.

This month, I had no travel plans. I only took care of the important official work by being stationed at the Gurugram office. In this way, I could focus more on my Hebrew learning. Despite the discouragement within for my inability to give sufficient time for learning, I looked to the Lord for grace and scheduled my time in such a way that I could complete at least one lesson a week. The Lord indeed graced me, and I was able to complete the learning of six Hebrew classes with revision, memorization, and quizzes in a month! What a miracle! The Lord truly grace me well. Except for one quiz, I did fairly well.

Every time I studied and wrote the exams, I prayed to the Lord that His perfect will be done in my Heberw learning. I truly believe He has a perfect plan for me in learning Hebrew, which will be revealed in time. Therefore, I put on my student mode and learned like a student. I did my best and took the exam when I was fully confident that I had learned it thoroughly well. I am not sure what the Lord has reserved for me. But I do believe that through this learning process, I have experienced the Lord a lot. Despite me becoming a father of three children already and running in my mid-forties, still the Lord gave me the grace, wisdom and knowledge to learn a completely different subject, Hebrew, nothing related to any subjects that I learned in the past. Now that I have come to the middle of the entire Hebrew course, I must look to the Lord for another half and sail on until completion. 

Life is a process of learning, growing, and gaining God through whatever circumstances the Lord has placed me in. It is great to take up challenges and face the reality of life. This is the lesson Hebrew learning has taught me.

Lord, grace me on and on that I may be able to read and understand Your word in the way it was written originally in Hebrew.