What Does Your Storehouse Reveal?

“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him,

and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.”

Matthew 12:35 

One of the evident signs of our culture’s over-indulgence in material things is the proliferation of those storage facilities that allow you to rent space for the excess items you own but do not have room for where you live.

We seem to acquire (and convince ourselves we need) much more than what we are able to store in our homes.

Jesus had something to say about our own personal storehouse in the verse quoted above. Simply stated; a good man will store up good things

and then guess what comes out of him – good.

An evil man will store up evil things

and surprise, surprise – evil comes out of him.

The obvious question might seem to be – What are you storing up?

The reality, though, is that “There is no one righteous, not even one.”(Romans 3:10) and so if there is any goodness in me it is the goodness imputed through Christ in me. Looking at verse 27 of that same chapter in Romans, the Apostle asks this question: “Where, then is boasting? It is excluded.”

Please understand that good works should follow after Christ comes to make his home in you. But it would be a tragic misunderstanding of grace to think that Christ makes His home in you because of your goodness. I become that storehouse of good things after Christ comes in and not before. It is a work and evidence of His Holy Spirit in me.

That makes me to realize that He is the one who makes all the difference and it is not me. What comes out of my ‘storehouse’ then should be evidence to the world of His presence in me.

Does my storehouse include mercy, love, and worship for Him alone?

What does your storehouse reveal about you?