“Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?” Luke 12:24

Storehouse(s)

The Lord woke me up with the word storehouse(s) last week. This was followed by my questions, foolishness and promises. If that won’t get you out of bed and into His Word, I don’t know what will!

Here’s a question God asks Job: “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?” (Job 38:22 NIV), and a promise He gives in Malachi 3:10 is, “’Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,’” says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.’” God has brought this verse to fruition in a multitude of ways as my husband and I committed to tithe years ago.

We can also see the foolishness of Hezekiah as he showed the Babylonians everything in his storehouses in 2 Kings 20:13, and how afterwards Isaiah prophesied it would all be carried away by them one day.

I found a beautiful verse on the power of God: “When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses” (Jeremiah 10:13 NIV).

And of His planning/provision: “When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt” (Genesis 41:56 NIV). This brought back memories when I felt like I was in prison due to an illness, or things had been done against me that weren’t right, but looking back I saw that good came out of it—just as good came out of Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers. God ultimately brought him to a place to do incredible good that could’ve only come about through the bad.

Luke 12:24 concludes the parable of the foolishness of a certain rich man who ran out of room to store his crops, so he decided to tear down his barns and build bigger ones (Luke 12:16-20). It doesn’t end well for him. The riches were not the problem—the heart was. Luke 12:21 tells us, “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

My foolishness can come when I worry about or chase after the provision God has already promised to provide, such as when I focus on stuff and not Him, or when I am anxious about things going on in life I have no control over and cannot see the outcome, but God can.

“Lord, may we focus on Your promises and not the foolishness of stuff or anxiety of circumstances. Without question, You have the very best for us. Amen.”