Jesus, the all-inclusive land

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Jesus, the all-inclusive land,
Is everything to me:
A Christ of brooks, of depths and streams,
And fountains bubbling free.
Springing from valleys and from hills,
Flowing till every part He fills,
He waters us—how glorious—
By His life!

Jesus is now the land of wheat—
Incarnate, crucified.
But resurrection life is He
By barley signified.
He is a land of figs and vines—
Blood of the grape, the cheering wine.
With such supplies He satisfies—
Christ our land!

O what a rich, abundant Christ:
Our pomegranate true,
The olive tree whose oil is now
Anointing us anew.
Rich milk and honey He doth bring,
Sweet, satisfying, nourishing.
Our Christ is such; He is so much!
What a Christ!

In our good land we eat the bread—
There is no scarcity.
We never lack one thing in Him,
So rich, so full is He.
He is a land so vast, immense;
He is complete in every sense.
How He expands—land of all lands—
In our heart!

Christ is a land of iron stones,
Whence comes authority.
We must dig out this solid Christ
To bind His enemy.
Then we must through the sufferings pass
To be refined as burnished brass.
With iron bind, as brass refined,
Is our need.

Lord, how we bless Thee for this land,
The all-inclusive Christ!
We’ve eaten Him, we’re filled with Him,
O how He has sufficed!
Teach us to labor constantly
Upon this vast reality;
This is our joy, this our employ—
Christ our land!

Ihr Name

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Bundesland/Provinz

Land

Ihr Kommentar

Bedingungen

Un Hermano

Brothers and sisters, we must look to the Lord that we may learn day by day how to apply such an all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches. We must experience Him from the living water all the way to the iron and the copper.

There are many more items of the riches of Christ. I have merely given you some hints in these chapters. We have read the passage in Ezekiel 34:29 : “I will raise up for them a planting place of renown. ” Christ is a plant of renown—we do not know its name. Christ is another special kind of plant. Christ is exceedingly rich. We can never exhaust Him. There are also other kinds of plants in the Scriptures representing Christ. The second chapter of Song of Songs speaks of the apple tree (v. 3). This, however, is not an accurate translation. A more accurate translation indicates that it is a kind of orange tree. Christ is an orange tree. There are so many plants representing Christ and revealing various aspects of His riches for us to experience. Exodus 30 names the plants from which the anointing oil and the incense were composed: myrrh, fragrant cinnamon, fragrant calamus, and cassia (vv. 23-24), as well as stacte, onycha, galbanum—all fragrant spices—with pure frankincense (v. 34). These plants are very meaningful and exceedingly fragrant. Oh, the riches! Oh, the inexhaustible riches!

This land is indeed a good land, an exceedingly good land. It is especially good in its unsearchable riches. How rich this piece of land is! It is the type of the all-inclusive Christ. Let us endeavor to experience, to enjoy, and to apply such a glorious, all-inclusive One. May He be gracious to us.

The All-inclusive Christ
Chapter 8 CWWL, 1961–1962, vol. 4
(LSM)

Catherine C

United Kingdom

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Lord, how we bless Thee for this land,
The all-inclusive Christ!
We’ve eaten Him, we’re filled with Him,
O how He has sufficed!
Teach us to labor constantly
Upon this vast reality;
This is our joy, this our employ—
Christ our land!

G.D. Kifle

London, England, United Kingdom

We never lack one thing in Him

Rebekah Benson

DFW Area, Texas, United States

3) O what a rich, abundant Christ:
Our pomegranate true,
The olive tree whose oil is now
Anointing us anew.
Rich milk and honey He doth bring,
Sweet, satisfying, nourishing.
Our Christ is such; He is so much!
What a Christ!

Praise You Lord!! You are in our heart!! You are so rich, so sweet! Sweet as the rich milk and honey!! Thank You Lord that we can love You!!

Armand Tongo

Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Laboring on Christ is our joy!

Soroosh Rahimi

Houston, TX, United States

What a Christ we have!

C. Taylor

Forth Worth, Texas, United States