On occasion, I have built, created or re-organized to generate additional storage - usually with a specific purpose in mind. One thing I have noticed is always true; if you don't use the storage immediately for what it was intended, it quickly fills up with other things. This holds true whether it is the new shelf you built in the garage to hold paint cans, the cupboard you cleared out to hold Tupperware or the spot in your closet for your tee-shirts.
The same holds true in our hearts, minds and souls. There is a "God-shaped" hole in our hearts. We need to keep it filled up with the things of God. If we don't, we start to accumulate other things there - possessions, relationships, hobbies or even addictions. Sometimes we recognize this and take steps to "clean it out" and restore it to the intended purpose. But if we don't make it a priority to keep it filled with the things of God, it quickly refills with the stuff you just took out (and more).
Luke 11:24-26 “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.”
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