Enjoying the Fruit of the Land

“Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey…”

-Charles Spurgeon: Morning and Evening Devotional

Your life, your journey, can be wearisome. The struggles are real and the stakes are high. Surely the search for meaning and purpose cannot last forever.

Thankfully, mercifully, it will not. One day you and I will enter into the land of milk and honey in our own lives. Like the Israelites, you will find rest in God and His provision for your life. You will take comfort in enjoying the fruit of the land.

Today, you may not be there, but take heart. Drink deeply from the story and promise of the Israelites deliverance and know that one day you too will enter into a life overflowing with milk and honey.

I don’t mean, of course, that there is a life better than the one you have now where you don’t have any questions. This is not true. Enjoying the fruit of the land simply means taking joy in that which God has given you and made clear to you.

Fix your eyes on the life God has in store for you. It may be blurry. It might not be clear. This is the trick distance can play on your eyes. But as your journey continues, as you begin to draw nearer your destination, your purpose will begin to be revealed.

Does the Israelites story connect with you? What hope do you find in the story of their deliverance?

Leave a comment and let’s talk.

  • http://www.lifeofasteward.com Loren Pinilis

    The thing that gets me about the Israelites is how wicked they were – but yet how faithful God was. It’s amazing to think of heaven – but even more amazing to think that God’s faithfulness will get me there.

    • http://aparchedsoul.com/ Grayson Pope (A Parched Soul)

      Amen to that!

  • http://www.trailreflections.com/ Chris Peek

    This is timely for me personally, as I have felt weary this week. It seems like the land of milk and honey remains at a distance, almost like a mirage. The fact that it took the Israelites 40 years of wondering gives me hope because my timetable is not God’s. He’s timeless, and I’m impatiently and eagerly awaiting the promised land.

    • http://aparchedsoul.com/ Grayson Pope (A Parched Soul)

      I’m glad it hit home! I love posting pieces of encouragement. There’s always someone who needs to hear it. I’m right there with you. Seems like I’ll be waiting forever sometimes. Then I think maybe it’s just a matter of perspective. Like when a 45 minute car ride takes FOREVER when you’re 6 years old, but then you get older and it seems like nothing.