It’s a farmer thing. Dairymen, too. We want our barns to be full.
Now, to keep a barn constantly full isn’t sensible. We want them full, but to maintain them that way all the time is to have our grain, our hay, or our seed turn into rodent food, or to rot with unwanted moisture, and to become useless to us.
Our goal is to fill our barn every fall. We want it bursting at the seams, so that during the hard times of winter, we will have abundant resources to draw upon. We will live off the fat of summer, even as the winter winds blow.
The logical conclusion is that our barns need to be emptied by the time the next harvest season rolls around. Then we can begin to restock our stores of grain, replenish our racks of hay, and ready ourselves for the upcoming winter season.
Spiritually we are the same. We can’t fill our barns once, then expect to sit on Easy Street until the Second Coming of the Lord. The power and strength we receive from our Messiah is to be used up in the hard times, and replenished through prayer, fasting, and the study of the Word. Otherwise we will go stale, rot will set in, and we will become rodent food for the world.
Joel 2:25 tells us:
“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.”
The world will use us up. That’s life. However, God will restore us each and every time.
John 10:10 reassures us:
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
This world we live in is a spiritual thief. Without the renewing power of Christ, we will be pulled down spiritually. God is our spiritual harvest, and he fills us up once again.
2 Timothy 3:16 gives us our part in restocking our barns:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
That’s our first step. When we’ve drawn down our spiritual resources, and we feel we’ve nothing left, let’s go to the source. Let’s go to the Word of our Almighty God. Let’s go to the Bible.
Our God will fill up our barns once again.
It’s our hunger for Christ that makes his renewing power taste so incredibly sweet to us.
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