The Promised Land

UV 3713/10000 The Promised Land By loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding closely to Him; for He is your life ( your good life, your abundant life, your fulfilment) and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord promised (swore) to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30 v 20 When we cling to God, He will never depart from us. If we reject Him, He too will reject us. If we love Him with all our hearts and souls and strength, He will cleave to us, closer to us than our own skin. He will keep sin and the enemy at bay. God Himself is our life, our good life, our abundance, our fulfilment. He will add longevity and eternity to our lives. We live, thereby, not in the shadow of death like the rest of humanity but in the land of the living God, the shadow of the Almighty. This is the promised land that the Lord swore He would give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The life we are living is the promised land. The promised land is not where we live but the very life that we live by faith. It is not a future inheritance but the life we now live in Christ. When we walk in the Word of God, we are walking and talking with Christ. The word is not kept secret or distant. It is very near us and is in our hearts and in our mouths so that we obey it. When the word is near and dear to us, we are near and dear to God. We live and move and flourish in the promised land- God Himself. He is not only the promise keeper but He is the promised land. When we cross the Jordan of disbelief, we enter the promised land. The promised land is itself a metaphor for the security, love, prosperity, blessings, anointing, revelation, freedom we enjoy in our intimate relationship with the Lord God. He being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), we, too experience faith and its blessings of multiplication that Abraham passed on as his inheritance to all who believe. We experience joy or the laughter that was Isaac’s blessing. We also have struggles like Jacob ( Israel) but in the end the Lord will make all things beautiful and give us victory. In all our experiences in the promised land, we should stick to the Lord like a leech. But unlike a leech, we should be contented with what the Lord blesses, provides, ordains in our lives instead of saying, “ Give me more.” The Word is the salt that makes us release our natural clutches on the world. To borrow a metaphor from motor car driving, when we release the clutch, we can drive on a higher gear on the highways of God, of the promised land. We access the higher ways, thoughts and blessings of the Lord. Jesus is the Bridge that leads us and connects us to the higher ways of the Lord God. All the sorrows, pains of the struggles of life will flow under that Bridge and will not touch our feet. Like Jacob when we struggle with God, we are blessed, greatly blessed but when we struggle with the world we have pain, strife, curses, defeat. Wherever we go or move or stand still, our heavenly google locator will say, “ Promised land” or land of promises where we are constantly experiencing the truth and blessing of one promise of God or other.