restored

I love old cars, I have grown up around old cars all my life. My dad owning a 1969 Camaro himself and always working on other people's old classics it's fun to watch. I love to see people who go to a sale, buy cars that are in such bad shape it is hard to even tell what they are. You see people excited to pay $500 for a hunk of junk with no wheels, no interior and now sign of ever running. They take them home and they begin a process that is called frame off restoration. You see, most classics are so old now that you can't just spray some paint on them put new interior in them and be happy, you have to almost start from scratch.
My first car that I bought when I was younger was a 1967 Camaro, it had a straight six in it with a 3 speed manual transmission. It was a really nice looking ride on the outside. I had a close friend of my dad's paint it for me, and when he went to start painting it he realized it was almost all bondo. It had holes in the rear quarter panels that you could stick your head through. So he called me and asked if I wanted to hang new fenders or just fill the holes with bondo. I chose bondo, I had no intentions of restoring the car or keeping it for a very long time, I just wanted to have a nice looking car. So he filled the holes and smoothed them, then I put new carpet in it, painted the interior and fixed up the seats. Finally, we put a new distributor on the motor, changed the oil and bought new wheels and tires.
I was so excited the first time I drove it to work to show all my friends. They were amazed, they thought it looked like a brand new car. Everyone walked around it looking at the paint job, at the interior and the overall new look of the car. I had one really close friend that was riding home with me and I was telling him what all we did and how it was almost all bondo, how if we scratched the paint too bad the fenders might fall off(they wouldn't, but it was believable)
I had taken shortcuts to get it to look good, it was a quick fix. I did not strip everything off of the frame and rebuild the entire car, I instead just made it look good to the passer by.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; teh old has gone, the new has come!
You see a lot of self help books, a lot of Dr. Phil seekers and a lot of things that people use to attempt to fix themselves. In all honesty some of these things may help fix the problems that people have, but they only fix the outside. Only accepting Christ as Lord and Savior can fix them for good from the inside. Being in Christ is like frame off restoration, everything is fixed no shortcuts taken. So let's stop seeking quick fixes and start focusing on the one person who can fix it all, Christ!
Thanks for reading and have a great day!