Trust When the Journey Makes No Sense - Rabbi Ya’akov Asher Sinclair

And what happens when Abraham arrives in this promised land? There's a massive famine. One moment the Almighty is promising Abraham a wonderful future, and the next Abraham is packing his bags and heading down to Egypt because there's nothing to eat. Abraham teaches us that difficulty is not necessarily a contradiction to a promise. Sometimes it's the very means by which that promise is fulfilled. The purpose of Lech Lecha wasn't just to move Abraham from one place to another, it was to transform him into Avraham Avinu, to create a person whose relationship with Hashem was not dependent on whether life was comfortable, predictable, or even comprehensible. The first words that Hashem speaks to Abraham are not merely a command to travel. They're an invitation to trust.