Laboring on Jesus, the good land so real

(2) Walking in Him

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Having received Christ, we should walk in Him. To walk is to live, to act, to behave, and to have our being; it implies everything in our daily living. To walk in Christ is to live, move, act, and have our being in Christ. We should not live, walk, move, act, or have our being in anything other than Christ. Furthermore, to walk in Christ means not to have any substitute for Christ. Because of man’s fall, culture replaces God in man’s life. Man was made for God and needs God to be his life, his enjoyment, and everything to him. But because man lost God, he invented culture as a substitute for God. Now in His economy God has ordained that Christ, His Son, should accomplish redemption, bring man back to God, and then replace all the substitutes with Himself. The various factors and elements of our human life are all replacements for Christ, but the factors and elements that have become substitutes for God must now be replaced by Christ. In order for this to be our experience, we need to walk in Christ. Christ is not only the sphere, the realm, in which we walk, but He is also every factor and element of our human life. To experience Christ in this way is to walk in Him.

We should walk, live, and act in Christ so that we may enjoy His riches, just as the children of Israel lived in the good land and enjoyed all its rich produce. The good land today is Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit (Gal. 3:14), who dwells in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22 ; Rom. 8:16) to be our enjoyment. To walk according to this Spirit (v. 4 ; Gal. 5:16) is the central and crucial point in the New Testament.

In our experience Christ should be the good land in which we live and walk. This should not merely be a doctrine to us. We need to pray, “Lord, I want to live and walk in You. Lord, I ask that You be the good land to me in my experience and that every aspect of my living may be in You. ” To walk in Christ is a way to experience Christ as the mystery of God (Col. 2:6).

The Conclusion of the
New Testament:
Experiencing, Enjoying,
and Expressing Christ,
Message 354 (LSM)
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“All things which relate to life and Godliness” in 2 Peter 1:3 are the various aspects of the divine life, typified by the riches of the produce of the good land in the Old Testament. They are the substance of our faith’s substantiation allotted to us by God as our portion for our inheritance. Life is within, enabling us to live, and Godliness is without as the outward expression of the inward life. Life is the inward energy, the inward strength, to bring forth the outward Godliness, which leads to and results in glory.

The Conclusion of the
New Testament:
Experiencing, Enjoying,
and Expressing Christ,
Message 389 (LSM)

The Lord's mercies are new every morning! If we will rise early and enjoy Him in the Word and in prayer we will gain Him "bit by bit", express Him in our daily living, and share our enjoyment of Him as the all-inclusive good land in every meeting!

We need to be diligent to labor on Christ, seeking Christ, enjoying Christ and experience Christ in every situation. Hallelujah! We have entered into Christ as the reality of the good land.

Thank you Lord Jesus for we can partake all your riches day by day. Praise the Lord!

The Old Testament good land is a picture of Christ. What a picture!

He yields the produce of reality,

God reaps a harvest of Jesus in me.

Laboring on Jesus yields reality...

God and man are indeed satisfied = SABBATH REST

This Sabbath rest is Christ as our rest, typified by the good land of Canaan.

We need to labor on Christ by anticipating the dawn and musing upon His word; to experience His grace and power, making us solid "cube" for His building to become God's dwelling place.

Let us enjoy the presence of God and submit to the authority of God to enlarge the habitation of God, the church His home to become His city His kingdom.

Christ with the kingdom will be the rest in a fuller way to the overcoming saints, who will be His co-kings, sharing and enjoying His rest.

Amen.

What a precious and timely hymn. The Lord is using the world situation to turn us from the wilderness to the Jordan, so He as our Joshua can lead us into the reality of the good land. We set aside our unbelief, look at Him and let Him lead us into uncharted territory. What a privilege to be alive today.

Hallelujah, Jesus is our good land, Lord we want to labor on You as the good land.