Not Liquor Store but Be Filled - The Lord's Store
Thank You, Holy Spirit. It was Tuesday morning. I was riding the bus, and this thought just kept coming to me: What if the liquor store was called The Lord’s Store? I couldn’t shake it. Like something in my spirit was saying: There’s a better kind of drink. There’s a better place to be filled. As I was looking out the window of the bus, I saw two men sitting on the curb. Not slouched over, just sitting. Maybe thinking. Maybe waiting. And then I saw a woman walking to her car with a bottle in her hand, in a brown paper bag. She wasn’t hiding it. Didn’t need to. Just walked like this was her routine. I don’t know. Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn’t. But something in me whispered: There’s got to be more than this. Then I looked up at the sign: Liquor Store. Open seven days a week. Selling whatever you think you need. And I said to myself, What if the name was changed? What if it said: Be Filled — The Lord’s Store? Where you get filled, not emptied. Where the Word lifts you instead of the bottl...