Exodus 33 starts with, "The Lord said to Moses, “Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ 2 And I will send an angel before you to drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 3 Go up to this land that flows with milk and honey."
God says, "get going," it is just so to the point and direct. There is the land flowing with milk and honey and it is just waiting for you so you better get a move on. It makes me wonder why there were not itching to get there as soon as they could. They had become content with that they had and where they were, but God's ultimate destination was still the end result.
This passage makes me think of heaven. Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. What I believe the Kingdom of Heaven to be is Gods work on this earth that is going on right now, all around out. And sometimes we choose to participate and sometimes we choose to ignore it. Dallas Willard says that you can have as much Heaven now as you can handle. But so often we just get content with what he have right in front of us. The Kingdom of Heaven is available, it is right in front of us, and depending on how much of it you would grab on to is how much you can have not. So "get going!" let's go the land of milk and honey now and not wait anymore.
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