Micah 5:7
And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Throughout the Scriptures, God has always used the remnant to do His mighty works. God used a remnant to rebuild the wall in Nehemiah’s day. God used a remnant to rebuild the temple in Ezra’s day. God used a remnant to show that standing for right could withstand Nebuchadnezzar’s fire. God used the remnant to show that standing against the law that demanded man not to pray was more powerful than the mouths of hungry lions. God used a remnant to pray fire down from Heaven. On and on we could go to show that God always uses a remnant to do His mighty works.
The great thing about God using the remnant is that He gets the glory for whatever He does. The remnant cannot boast in its abilities because whatever God did through the remnant was done by God’s power. The remnant was often looked down upon by the majority, but it is God who gets the glory for using the remnant to see His mighty works done.
What is a remnant? A remnant is a small minority of people who remain faithful to God. The remnant are those who do not need the approval of the majority to stand for truth. In fact, the remnant was often the small minority who was looked down upon as the problem of their day, but they were the ones God used to show His mighty power through. You see, God does not need the majority to show His truth works; He just needs a remnant who will attempt the miraculous by faith.
Let me take this truth in a different direction than where most take it. Do you only have a remnant of your life left to live? Are you at the end of your days and see yourself as not having many years left? Though you are in the latter years of life, you don't have to sit and die because you are older. God has used many people in their elderly years to do His greatest works. Abraham and Sarah saw God use them in their remnant years. Moses was in the remnant years when God used him to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. God used Noah in the remnant years to step onto the ark and save life for generations to come. God used Samuel in the remnant years of his life to anoint David as the next king of Israel. Just because you are elderly does not mean you have to sit and wait for death to come. Instead, use the remnant years of your life and make them the most productive years by giving them to God to use. Instead of dying before you are dead, choose to live until you die.
Maybe you are facing the remnant years of your health; you don't have to die because your health is gone. God has used many people in the remnant years of their health to do the mightiest works of their lives. I think of Marlene Evans who fought cancer for fourteen years, but those fourteen years were likely the most productive years of their lives. You may only have a remnant of health left, but God can still use you if you give what you have for God to use.
Moreover, maybe you only have a remnant of life left after sin. Don't let sin be the last chapter of your life. Use the remnant years of your life to show God can use the fallen to be a mighty trophy in His trophy case. Instead of allowing sin to be the last chapter, take the remnant of what you have left and turn it into a story of grace to show God’s power can use the repentant sinner.
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