Our Spiritual Storehouses

“While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and concubines might drink from them.” Daniel 5:2.

Imagine the scene. Many years after King Nebuchadnezzar left the throne, his son is ruling in his place. He is throwing a huge party and the wine is flowing. He invites the women which is extremely uncustomary and remembers that his dad plundered the temple of God many years before. He considered how in his father’s storehouse of treasures there were many expensive things. He summoned his officials to get a few of the things dedicated to the God of the Israelites from his dad’s possessions. I am sure he thought that it was a good thing his father left them lying around.

What is it that we possess as parents which we have stored up for our children to borrow…prejudice, pride, emotional abuse, anger? The list goes on and on. They have grown up knowing it is there even if we are not around. Belshazzar could have stopped the legacy, the legacy that served himself over God. Instead, he continued the cycle of self first, all else second. Not only did he borrow his dad's sin but built on the sin that already existed.

I was so blessed to have a storehouse of spiritual treasures for which I surrounded myself thanks to my grandparents and parents. These treasures glistened so beautifully and were used to glorify God. They were not closed up in some closet but rather displayed for the beauty for which they possessed. These treasures of God were always used to exalt God and to encourage others to build a storehouse of their own with God at the center.

It doesn’t matter what spiritual legacy from which we come, the treasures of God are for all. As I have heard my mother say, God doesn’t have grandchildren. Every child is a direct son or daughter of God and has access to the amazing treasures of our Father. Let us all examine our storehouses and get rid of the things that lead to sin before our children decide to borrow them.