It may not look like much yet, but you should have seen it when it was still part of Pop's old 1966 Chevy C10 pickup truck! There was rust around the edges, and it was well worn, to say the least. It wasn't worth very much on the used jalopy market, but it's still worth plenty to me and Pop. Just like a few of us JourneyMen, don't you think? Our original Designer built all kind of style and features into us, and over the years we burned rubber, raced the motor, went too long between oil changes, blew out the speakers, and pushed ourselves until we looked a little like Pop's truck before they took it apart.
Here's the good news. Just like the '66 Chevy truck, we are all in restoration, as the Master Mechanic takes us "off the frame" for repairs and fine tuning. We can be sure of this: As we submit to the process of restoration, God can and will finish the job and put us back out on the road again, shining and running with purpose and style.
"I'm just an old chunk of coal, but I'm gonna be a diamond some day." - Billy Joe Shaver
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39
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