This is a meal of bread and wine, not milk and honey, but we need to talk about milk and honey anyway. The land of Canaan, the land to be inherited by Israel, is routinely described as a land flowing with milk and honey, and it is the land of blessing, the land of their inheritance, the land of promise. God has expanded all those promises in the time of the new covenant, in which we are living, but He still apportions His promises in accordance with the covenant. After all, we are receiving the promises of the new covenant.
Canaan was Israel’s land by covenant, and solemn covenants in the Bible are sealed with an oath, and have attendant blessings and curses. The oath entails blessings and the blessings entail an oath. Note what it says in Deuteronomy. Right after the Lord tells them to walk faithfully in all that He has commanded, He tells them this: “Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey” (Dt. 6:3).
God’s provision of milk and honey are a type of the antitype here before us now. God gives us sustenance, and He does so with an open hand. The type shows us that God’s provision of bread and wine, and His Christ by those means of grace, is not a provision of starvation rations. It is not limited; we are not being given thin commons.
So as you eat the bread and drink the wine, remember that far more is involved than just the morsel you possess. This is bread for the world; this is wine to gladden the hearts of all men.