There is a law in physical science called the Law of the Conservation of Energy. This law says that energy cannot be made or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another. For example, we don’t create the energy to run a race. Instead, we eat food and our bodies burn the calories to make kinetic running energy. Likewise, we don't create electricity. We merely take energy from the sunlight or a flowing stream or through nuclear processes, and convert that energy into electricity for our use.
I think we can also apply this law to righteousness in the world. We don't create our own goodness here. We only take God’s pre-existing goodness and pass it along to another. We take the food God gave us and we share it. We use the tongue God gave us and we use it to encourage another. We use the spirit of God within us to forgive the seemingly-unforgiveable.
It’s not our energy. It’s not our righteousness. It’s the transfer of God’s righteousness to our hearts where it’s converted into new outgoing energy. The Bible calls this producing fruit. And what better way to apply the Law of the Conservation of Righteousness? Although, I’d rather call it the Law of the Multiplication of Righteousness, and here’s why. When God sent his son to the earth, God was adding a new spiritual element to the world’s periodic table. Never before had a human thoroughly obeyed God until Christ came and lived and died. Never before had the earth seen a human that was righteous. Jesus brought something new into the world. He was the ultimate creator of goodness.
If we want to multiply this righteouness here on earth like Christ did, we need that invisible power cord connecting us to the source of righteousness. That cord is faith in Christ. It's the faith that supercharges our practicing of righteousness here on earth. This faith believes that we are not the creators of goodness, but that it's God's creative energy coursing through us and making something new, something that wasn't there before.
Through faith, our everyday work is power surged into a mighty work for God. Through faith, our run-of-the-mill friendships are jolted into eternal relationships with god-like beings. Through faith, weaknesses become opportunities for God’s power to burst into life. And through faith evil itself is transformed into opportunities for God’s righteousness to take root.
This is how we become part of the process of bringing new energy into our solar system. This is how we participate in God’s righteousness.
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