The worst pollutant in the world is rebellion against God and against God’s ways. Breaking covenant with God! Marred humans trying to tell God what is right and what is wrong! Trying to exclude God! This pollutant destroys the earth.
“The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.” [1]
When Christ returns, creation will be set free from the defilement of sin. “The whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.” [2]
The solution to personal pollution is faith in Jesus Christ. Each of us needs to bring our sin to the foot of the cross, and ask Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to forgive us. Cleanse us from the guilt we bear! Give us new hearts to know and praise Him!
“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” A sinful heart does not realize the depths of its sinfulness before God. We need the Holy Spirit to convict us of our sins. We need the Holy Spirit to help us repent of our sin. “Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, For You are my praise.” [3]
The second coming of Christ is the solution to creation’s pollution. Asking Christ to forgive our sins and to save us from our sin, as well as believing in Him, and professing Him as Lord and Savior, is the solution to our personal unholiness.
Jesus Christ is returning. He is the solution to earth’s pollution. Thus, the next to last verse of the Bible exclaims, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” [4]
[1] Isaiah 24:5-6
[2] Romans 8:22
[3] Jeremiah 17:9, 14
[4] Revelation 22:20
Bearing witness to the Word of God and to the testimony of Jesus!
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