Eat God’s Words to Enjoy, be Constituted with, and Dispense Christ as Milk and Honey

As believers in Christ, we must eat God’s words to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land flowing with milk and honey until milk and honey are under our tongue for us to dispense the riches of Christ to the needy ones at the appropriate time.

Amen, Lord, we want to enjoy Your riches in Your word today! We come to Your word to drink the guileless milk of the word and taste the sweetness of God in the word! Amen!

Thank the Lord that He has not only saved us from eternal perdition and reconciled us to God but even more, He has called us into the enjoyment of Christ as the good land.

He didn’t give us a physical portion of a land; rather, He allotted each one of us, the believers in Christ, a portion of Christ for our enjoyment.

Even as the children of Israel were allotted a portion of the good land, so we today are allotted a portion of the all-inclusive Christ for our enjoyment.

God’s purpose in rescuing us out of the world and regenerating us with His life is not merely so that we now wait for Christ to come and bring us to Himself.

His purpose in His calling is for us to enter into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ, the reality of the good land. This land is rich, spacious, vast, and immense, and this land has everything we need.

It is a land flowing with milk and honey. This land is so rich that milk and honey are there in abundance.

In the spiritual realm, milk and honey are a type of Christ’s judicial redemption and His organic salvation, for both of them are the produce of the animal life (a type of redemption) and the vegetable life (a type of generating life).

On the one hand, Christ died on the cross for our redemption, and He accomplished an all-inclusive and all-terminating judicial redemption.

He solved all the problems, met all of God’s requirements, and dealt with everything negative; simply by faith in Christ, we are reconciled to God, we are forgiven of our sins, and we receive the divine life. How wonderful redemption is! Amen!

Furthermore, Christ is also saving us in His life; after being redeemed and regenerated, we enter a lifelong process of being saved in the divine life of Christ.

We are now in this process today. Christ’s judicial redemption and His organic salvation are our portion today in the light; as long as we walk in the light and live in the light, we enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the reality of the good land flowing with milk and honey. Praise the Lord!

Eat God’s Words to Enjoy the All-inclusive Christ – His Word is Milk for us to Drink and Honey for us to Eat

The Bible does not accidentally or randomly use words and expressions when it describes things or mentions things.

When Jehovah described the good land into which He would bring the people of Israel, He said it is a land flowing with milk and honey.

This good land is a type of Christ, who is all-inclusive, vast, immense, and in Him milk and honey are flowing.

What does this mean and how can we apply this to our experience? Thank the Lord for the New Testament, where we see clearly that we can eat God’s words to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects so that we may be filled with milk and honey.

The Bible tells us that God’s word is milk for us to drink and honey for us to eat (John 6:57, 63, 68; 1 Pet. 2:2; Psa. 119:103; Ezek. 3:3). The psalmist said in Psalm 119:103, How sweet are Your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! The word of God is so sweet!

When we exercise our spirit and turn our heart to the Lord as we come to His word, we taste the Lord’s sweetness in His words.

Instead of being rebuked by the Lord and condemned by Him when we come to Him in His word, He shines on us in a loving way, and He unveils to us how sweet He is.

The Lord is so sweet in His words! We all can testify that we have tasted the Lord’s sweetness in His words.

Throughout the day, as we do this and that, the Lord reminds us of His words, and His words are so sweet to us.

As we chew on God’s words by prayerfully considering them and musing upon them, we taste the Lord’s sweetness.

The Lord’s words are even sweeter than honey. May we come to Him again and again and find His words, eat His words, and let His words be sweet to us. Amen!

The Lord’s words are also like guileless milk which we, as regenerated people, even as babes in the Lord, should long for (1 Pet. 2:2).

Peter tells us that, as newborn babes, we need to long for the guileless milk of the word in order by it we may grow unto salvation, if we have tasted that the Lord is good.

Hallelujah, the Lord is good! We have tasted and we can testify that God is good for food! He is good for us to eat, enjoy, and drink.

The word of God is like milk to us, nourishing us and causing us to grow. As we come to the Lord in His word day by day, we drink the guileless milk of the word so that we may grow unto salvation.

His words are not only sweet to our taste but even more, they are nourishing, causing us to grow unto salvation.

We don’t see how this happens and we don’t realise this, but when we eat and drink the Lord in His word, a little more of God is dispensed into our being for us to grow unto salvation. Praise the Lord!

We must eat God’s words so that we may enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects.

He is the reality of the vegetable life for generating life and of the animal life for redemption.

On the one hand, Christ is like a barley loaf, having divine life in Him to regenerate us and sustain our daily life.

He grew on the land, on the God-created earth, and He gives us life whenever we come to Him in His word. On the other hand, He lived in the Satan-corrupted world and was not affected by it, and He died to redeem us.

When He was on earth, He fed people with barley loaves and fish; He dispensed His generating life and redeeming life to both overcome death and give them life.

Today He does the same as we come to Him in His word. May we be such ones today, those who eat God’s words to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ and be constituted, even filled, with milk and honey!

Lord Jesus, we want to partake of the all-inclusive Christ with all His riches today! Amen, Lord, we come to Your word to eat God’s words and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ! Oh Lord, You are the good land as the reality of the generating life and the redeeming life. Thank You for dying for us on the cross to redeem us; we take You as the Lamb of God today and we apply Your precious blood! How wonderful redemption is, our gracious Lord, in Thee! We come to You in Your word, Lord, to enjoy Your sweetness. Your words are sweet to our taste. We love to eat You in the Word and taste Your sweetness as we read and pray over the Word. Amen, Lord, Your words are sweeter than honey to our mouth. We love to partake of Your sweetness in Your word! Oh Lord, we long for the guileless milk of the word in order by it we may grow unto salvation. Nourish us by Your word. Your word is real milk to us. Grant us to grow as we prayerfully consider Your word. Amen, Lord, Your word is milk for us to drink and honey for us to eat!

Enjoy Christ as the Land of Milk and Honey to be Constituted with Him and Dispense the Riches of Christ to the Needy Ones

On the one hand, we eat the word of God to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ and partake of His riches in spirit so that we may be filled with milk and honey.

On the other hand, by enjoying Christ as the land of milk and honey, we will be constituted with Him as milk and honey and we will also have something to dispense into others.

Song of Songs 4:11a says, Your lips drip fresh honey, my bride; / Honey and milk are under your tongue.

This is very significant, and it is indeed our experience many times.

When we believers in Christ enjoy Christ as the land of milk and honey, especially by eating God’s words, we are constituted with Him as milk and honey and we will even be able to dispense the riches of Christ into others.

In Isaiah 7:14-15, we see a prophecy concerning the Messiah, the coming Emmanuel; it says that He will eat curds and honey until He knows how to refuse evil and choose good.

This shows us that the power to choose is not because of us but because we eat the Lord in His word.

Curds are a product of milk; curds and honey refer to the Lord’s words, which are milk and honey to us.

Every day we are confronted with many decisions; we need to respond to things, make some choices, do certain things, and go certain places.

We need to choose God’s will; the power of choosing is from eating curds and honey, that is, eating the Lord in His word.

The Lord Jesus could choose the Father’s will because He prayerfully mused on the Word of God.

He could take the cup that God gave Him to drink because He ate curds and honey. Many martyrs throughout the ages could choose God’s will and were willing to sacrifice their life, making a choice to stand with God’s will because they had been feeding on God’s word.

We eat the word of God as the richest grace (curds, or milk) and the sweetest love (honey). When we enjoy the richest grace and the sweetest love, we are enabled to choose God and live Christ.

As we partake of the riches of Christ, we will be constituted with these riches; milk and honey will be even under our tongue.

Honey restores the stricken ones and milk feeds the new ones. When we as the Lord’s seekers and lovers, enjoy Christ as the land of milk and honey, the riches of Christ are stored in us so that food is under our tongue.

Then, we can dispense the riches of Christ to the needy ones at any time (Isa. 50:4; Matt. 12:35-36; Luke 4:22; Eph. 4:29-30).

The apostle Paul was this way. He enjoyed the riches of Christ and became a minister of these riches, having milk and honey under his tongue.

When we eat the Lord’s riches in His word and are filled with Him as the sweetest love and richest grace, milk and honey will be under our tongue.

This means that our speaking will be affected. We will not speak jokes, we will not gossip, nor do we react by speaking rash words.

Rather, our words will be sweet and nourishing, dripping milk and honey for others to be nourished, strengthened, and supplied.

Honey drips very slowly; when we’re constituted with Christ, we will not have the urge to speak, nor will we babble many words before others but rather, we will drip milk and honey to others, having a storage of the riches of Christ under our tongue.

The top of the tongue is where we take in food, and under the tongue we store food; partaking of the riches of Christ in His word will cause a rich storage of Christ to be ready for us to dispense to others.

We will not only have enough food for us to exist and live; we will also have a rich deposit of Christ to minister to others for their sustenance.

We have more than enough food; we have honey to restore the weak ones and milk to feed the immature ones.

May we daily store the riches of Christ within us so that we may have milk and honey under our tongue.

And may we come to the Lord concerning our speaking so that we do not have an unbridled tongue, a loose tongue, but have the tongue of an instructed one.

May our tongue be sanctified. May our words supply others.

Out of the good treasure of our heart, the mouth speaks; however, out of the evil treasure of our heart, evil things will come forth through our mouth. Oh Lord!

May we all be careful concerning what we speak, for we will give an account of every idle word on the day of judgment. Oh Lord!

If we want to have the treasure stored up to minister to others also, we need to be very exercised in how we use our tongue and what we speak to one another.

Instead of speaking idle words, empty words, we need to exercise to speak words of grace.

This sweetness is not produced overnight; rather, it comes from a long period of gathering, inward activity, and careful storage (2 Cor. 12:7-9).

This means that we not only read the Bible but we have many inward activities before the Lord, allowing the Word to be living and operative in us (Heb. 4:12) and carefully storing it in our being.

May the riches of Christ be constituted into our being so that we may have milk and honey under our tongue to minister Christ to others.

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy Christ as the land of milk and honey to be constituted with Him as milk and honey! Amen, Lord, we come to You in Your word. Speak to us today. We want to store Your riches in our being. We say Amen to Your word. We pray Your word back to You. May Your word operate in us and divide our soul from our spirit. May Your word be so rich, so sweet, and so nourishing to us. We come to You, Lord, as we read Your word, so that we may enjoy You as the sweetest love and richest grace. Oh Lord, may our lips drip fresh honey, and may honey and milk be under our tongue! Fill us with the riches of Christ so that we may be able to dispense these riches to the needy ones at any time! Amen, Lord, may we do an inward work of gathering, opening, and storing the riches of Christ in our being so that we may be able to dispense something of these riches to others also! Oh Lord, we give You our speaking. May we not be loose in our speaking but rather, may our lips drip fresh honey, the sweetest love of Christ constituting us!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother James Lee in this conference, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 23, “The Song of Songs,” section 3, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 27, Enjoying the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land—Our Allotted Portion – day 3.
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