The Unadorned Word

Living the Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.

Living the milk and honey life is the life of risk and responsibility.  It takes responsibility to get milk from cows. AND it takes risk to get honey from bees. 

How do you live the milk and honey life? The milk and honey life is the life lived well, the life lived in the promised land. 

Living the milk and honey life, the life of risk as and responsibility.

Have you ever wondered why bad things happened?  Have you ever faced opposition when you were trying to do something good. 

Have you ever thought if God brings good out of everything did he cause the bad.

Listen to episode 32 and hear how God has a promised land for you. 

 

The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.

 Drawing Moses out of the water meant going against  what was done, the law, her Father, the easy life. 

 Memory from Malawi acted in compassion for herself and the other girls her age. Her stand changed lives in her country, changed laws and is transforming culture. 

Compassion transforms our world. 

https://www.compassion.com.au/

The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility. 

When Zacceaus hid in the tree.  He had one thought. He wanted to see Jesus.  His past was a life of underhand deals, bribery and extortion. His future was a life integrity a generous life, a free life.  

What changed?

Living the milk and honey life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.

 Matthew Maury the Father of modern oceanography. Lived the life of risk and responsibility. Psalm 8:8 encouraged him to find the paths the sea. 

 His studies to find those paths filled his life. From his first voyage around the world to his death at 67 years old. He studied weather, astronomy, tides and currents discovering the paths in the sea he had heard about in childhood.  

A bible verse led to a life long career that still benefits the whole world. 

Anger is an emotion. Like all emotions it is intrinsically neither good nor bad. In Psalm 4 we see David take his anger from a place of risk to a place of rest. 

Listen to the podcast to find out how he does that.  

The Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.

Fear paralyses. Trust makes a way where there is no way.

David wrote this Psalm when he fled from his son Absalom who was attempting to usurp him.  You can read the full story in 2 Samuel 15 - 20.  It's an incredible story of leadership that trusts God. In it David epitomises the New Testament quote Be wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove. (Matt 10) 

1 John 4:18 tells us perfect love casts out all fear. David on the run, slept and woke refreshed. Saying "I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side"

 

Living the Milk and Honey Life. The Life of Risk and Responsibility.

When we plant our roots deep into the Word of God and meditate on it.  We grow strong like a tree planted by a streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither - whatever they do prospers. 

Be like a tree, plant your life deep into the Word of God.

Psalm 1 one of my life scriptures. 

 

From the first chapter to the final one. The promise is there God is with us always, and as Matthew reveals to us how to live the Christian Life. We know absolutely its possible. Because with God nothing is impossible to us for He is with us always. 

2 people, 2 very different outcomes. One listened carefully understood, and acted. The other listened to everything through the filter of what they wanted.  One life was saved. One life destroyed.

Milk and honey people listen, think, serve.