God desires that all would come to know Him and that none would perish. We are the storehouse of the life-sustaining Holy Spirit. Like the abundantly filled storehouses in Egypt, God has filled us abundantly (followers of Jesus Christ) with the Holy Spirit. We become God’s Storehouse, filled with the Bread of Life. We become the temple (dwelling place) of the Holy Spirit. Once we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit then dwells within us. “Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6:35.
He filled it before this spiritual famine began as well. Without spiritual food, we will die an eternal death.īut God’s Storehouse is full.
We are in a famine and on the verge of starvation. We try to fill that void with things that are of no value, i.e. But God created us for a spiritual relationship with Him. When that first sin took place, we became separated (by sin) from our Heavenly Father. Mankind began to experience a spiritual famine in the Garden of Eden. But, in a famine in which people lacked life-sustaining sustenance, God provided. Now, it doesn’t say that God provided lobster and steak 5-course meals for everyone.
GOD STORE HOUSE FULL
Again, He filled the storehouses of Egypt so full that they fed the whole earth! That is a faithful God. He filled the storehouses so full that they didn’t just provide for Egypt, but for the whole earth. God made a way for the people to survive the famine before it even came. The contents of the storehouse were so substantial that “all the earth” came to purchase grain. Then we see in verses 46 & 47 (quoted in the first paragraph of this blog), that the bounty that God provided was incredibly substantial. Joseph predicts (when interpreting the King’s dreams) that God will bring about 7 years of bounty, followed by 7 years of incredible famine. In summarizing Genesis 41, God fulfills the prophecies about Joseph by placing Him in a position that is second only to the King. That is exactly what the storehouse was in Genesis 41. The storehouse was the place in which life-sustaining goods were kept in abundance. But for purposes of definition, a storehouse was the place that farmers stored their crops after reaping the harvest. Because of supermarkets and farmer’s markets, most people no longer have a need to farm. We had a much better idea of the value and necessity of storehouses when farming was a way of survival for all. Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.” “So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. Having read Genesis 41 recently, in which God fills the storehouses of Egypt, I began to have a deeper appreciation for our little storehouse food pantry and for the storehouse of God. Our church has a food pantry out of which we provide to those in need.
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