The one renewable resource

The world is finding that our resources for energy from coal and oil cannot last forever. So they are looking to other resources, renewable resources, such as solar power. Likewise in the spiritual, our witness for God must be founded upon a resource outside of ourselves. It must come from the one renewable source, the grace of Jesus. I believe that for a long time we as SDAs and other Christians have been running on our own steam when it came to being a witness. And Christ in the Most Holy Place has been working with us to rest fully in Him.

When we do this we will truly be His representatives and spokespersons. He will be able to entrust us with the greatest message ever given to this world. Heaven will touch Earth. We will be able to say with Isaiah, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” (Is. 61:10,11). We will know the experience of those who have spoken for God in the past—“In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Ps. 16:11). And “that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (Deut. 8:3).

The handover from limited fossil fuel to unlimited renewable resources will probably be a slow and painful process. So in the spiritual realm, our growth from self-dependence to reliance on God will be full of painful failures and hard lessons to learn. But the switch over must take place before Jesus comes. And His coming will be soon.