Good Land Flowing With Milk and Honey

“Your lips drip fresh honey, my bride; Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.” (Song of Solomon 4:11, RecVer)

“In my heart I have treasured up Your word That I might not sin against You.” (Psalms 119:11, RecVer)

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.” (Colossians 3:16, RecVer)

The constitution of the word of God is not an overnight matter but gathered through accumulation over a long period of time. During this long period of gathering, the Lord also will work on us inwardly with much inward activity now and then. This adds up to careful storage over a long period of time. This will thus become our unique possession of the faithful word and healthy teaching. 

For the gathering, we must pay the price and spend time reading and studying the word of God even with the help of the ministry of the word. This must be followed by the inward activity of the Spirit's move in our inward being. Without such an inward activity of the Lord, all our outward knowledge and services would not value much to God or to the saints. We must have a lot of inward activities which we must further sustain in the Holy Spirit. In the course of time, we can bring up the old treasures collected and use them under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. This is the honey and milk under the tongue and our lips can drip fresh honey whenever needed to whoever needs them. It will be fresh bread and oil to the hearer. This is the treasure the psalmist referred to in the Old Testament, "In my heart I have treasured up Your word." In the New Testament, it is "the word of Christ dwelling in you richly." To have such indwelling treasure is to be rich in the Lord for ourselves and also for our brothers and sisters. This is to be a good minister of Christ.

Now, I understand why the good land promised by the Lord for His people is a land flowing with milk and honey. The physical description of all the riches of the good land are types of the different aspects of the unsearchable riches of Christ. We must experience and enjoy the Lord in all the aspects of the riches of the good land.

“But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Jehovah your God, who has separated you from the peoples.” (Leviticus 20:24, RecVer)

“For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains; A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of honey; A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper. And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.” (Deuteronomy 8:7-10, RecVer)

Now that we have been saved and that Christ the good land flowing with milk and honey lives in us. Therefore, we must labor on Him day and night to extract all the unsearchable riches of Christ. Then store up these riches of Christ as our rich treasure to supply to the needy ones in time of need. To the extent that our lips must drip fresh honey, honey and milk are in our tongues, treasuring up God's word and making Christ dwell in us richly.

Lord, may I enjoy Your unsearchable richness flowing with milk and honey all the days of my life.