I recently visited an antique car display at a local park here in my hometown, there were a lot of cars that were being restored.

First the owners had to reconcile themselves that they wanted to go on with the process of getting on with the restoration of the vehicle. 

Why I say restoration  is because I don’t think these guys and gals ever stop working on their cars trying to find that last little piece to bring it back to original condition. 

That leaves a question,” is the car ever really restored to original condition?”

Clearly the answer is no.

For there are parts that just can’t be restored, even if they do a down to the frame process…  it still not original. 

As the old thing saying goes,”the minute you drive it off the showroom floor is used!”

Such was my life before coming to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and so it continues as I walk through life with Him.

Before coming to know Christ as my savior I was that old car left abandoned and destined to die on the roadside.  

When I came to saving knowledge of Christ I was reconciled unto to God the Father by faith, and not by my own works. In another word… I was justified; “just as if I had never sinned”

And like the car, the Lord than began the process of my restoration… in another word saintification.

Just as the Apostle Paul reminds us;

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Cor 5:17 niv)

But it’s not an instant process like the car is the step-by-step removal of the old and installation of the new.

The Apostle Paulcontinues in the book of Philippians as he reminds us that we have to do our part.  

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Phil 2:12 kjv)

I know my heart the Lord is  steadfastly at work restoring me to his original design in a perfect relationship so that the two shall be as one. 

I await the day that I stand before His throne, and He sees not me, but the His own reflection in me… then unlike the old care I will be brand new in His sight. 

Father I pray that I am ever attentive to your hand upon my life as do your good work in my, that I would be your trusted ambassador until the lost, broken and hurting and that Your word of truth be all I am.