Land Flowing with Honey and Milk

GOSPEL THOUGHTS

*Ordinary Season : 15th Week : Thursday*

*Gospel : Mt 11:28-30*

*First Reading : Ex 3:13-20*

*Land Flowing with Honey and Milk*

*1) The meaning of Milk and Honey*

Israel is referred to numerous times in the Bible as “a land flowing with milk and honey,” indicating its abundant fertility

a life of slavery is constricted and oppressive, while living in freedom in Israel is wide and spacious.

A land so fertile that it flows with milk and honey stands in contradiction to the place of oppression.

Milk and Honey is also the symbol of nourishment. So will nourish his people both physically and spiritually

*2) Purity of Milk and Honey*

Milk is considered to be pure. 

Honey is also considered to be pure 

So milk and honey represents the concept of purity and the Israelites have been called to this new level of their moral life 

Apart from this both these things are having good nutrients which help to keep up ones health 

The new land will be very nutrient in both ways, for their bodily life and also for their spiritual life 

*3) Combination of Milk and Honey*

Milk is a product of animals and honey is a product of plants. 

 “milk and honey” together represent completeness and harmony.

We do know milk often has ties to fertility, so the milk could point to the abundance of the land. Honey tended to represent delight, joy, sweetness, and pleasure. This combination could imply that Israel would no longer experience a time of bitterness and barrenness when they entered the Promised Land.

*4) Multiple use of milk and Honey*

Both these milk and honey has multiple use in our day to day life 

They are also have medical power 

These two are considered very useful and necessary things in our life 

So God is leading us to a land where there is milk and honey 

*5) Today God is leading to the fertile land where there is milk and Honey*

Today we are lead towrads the land of Bible, because it has the qualities of milk and honey 

Other Gospel qualities like, service, sacrifice, forgiveness, generosity, simplicity, authenticity are like the promised land, where there is flowing of milk and honey 

The question is, am I ready to allow myself to be lead towards the promised land, where there is milk and honey? 

*Think about it*

*God bless you and your family. Praying for you and your dear ones*

*Fr Maxim DSouza*

*Jeppu Seminary*

*Mangalore*