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 bottle weighing you down.
Where you taste and see that the Lord is good,
better than anything that burns going down and doesn’t last long anyway.

And yes, there’s wine here too.
But not to help you forget.
It’s a drink that helps you remember.
It’s about the blood He gave for you a reminder, not a runaway.
It doesn’t just take the edge off,.it gives you peace from the inside out.

The Bible doesn’t say you can’t drink.
It says:
Don’t get drunk.
Don’t let the drink control you.
Be filled with the Spirit instead.

He doesn’t drain you
He fills you.

And in that Store:
You don’t just cover the pain; you heal.
You don’t just get by; you get free.
You don’t just live; you live forever.
Not in your own strength,
but because you believed in Him.

And let me say this too:
Let us not judge.
Because truth be told,
some of us might still be walking
to the Liquor Store.
Maybe for alcohol,
maybe for something else.

Just because you’re not sitting on the curb doesn’t mean you don’t need healing too.

I looked up again at the sign:
Liquor Store.
Still open.
Still selling.

But I know another place
a better store:
The Lord’s Store.
It’s always open.
No ID.
No bag.
No shame.
Just come as you are and leave filled.

Isaiah 55:1–3 (NKJV)

Come, all you who are thirsty,
Come to the waters,
Even if you have nothing.
Why spend your money on what doesn’t satisfy?
Listen to Me, and you will live.

What if the liquor store was called
Not the Liquor Store but Be Filled — The Lord’s Store?

Would you come and receive what you thirst for
at the Be Filled — The Lord’s Store?



Ms. Selma "Peaches" Harrell

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