The Solyndra Failure

Every morning on my way to SUM Bible College, I pass the Solyndra Factory on the Nimitz Freeway in Fremont. Solyndra is (was) one of the new “green” companies being sold by the White House as a model of “green” entrepreneurialism. You may recall that Obama stopped in at the Fremont Company last year for a photo op, while announcing He was providing a government-backed loan of nearly one-half billion dollars. Last month (less than a year later), the company filed for bankruptcy. Furthermore, they are under investigation by the FBI for possible fraudulent use of government monies.

Ironically, the “green” company’s motto was “what we do here will someday change the world.” Of course that refers to the development of an energy source (the sun) that will prevent this earth’s atmosphere from imploding into extinction because of the excessive greenhouse gasses. But I can’t help but see the irony here. All of the educated, intellectual, and entrepreneurial efforts of man to “change the world” and save mankind are only that—the futile attempts of man to save himself. I believe this is what Paul refers to as “wood, hay and stubble” and it is doomed for failure (1 Cor. 3:12, 15). It occurs to me that while the ‘natural’ man is striving for the “green,” the spiritual man reaches for the gold!