Scrapyard Supercar!

 

Good morning Peter, and good morning to everyone who’s listening. If you have Disney+ or watch National Geographic channel I wonder if you have ever seen the programme, “Scrapyard Supercar”?

In this programme two teams battle it out over 4 days to build a car from the debris found at a car scrapyard that will then beat the performance of a top of the range supercar!

It’s a classic programme. We love watching it as a family, and I’d recommend it. It does seem very surprising that for example a Ford Ka welded onto a Range Rover chassis, or Citroen 2CV with a motorbike stuck on the back could outperform a Bentley Benteyga or a Jaguar F-type at a specific challenge, but amazingly they do it again and again!

It’s great TV, and it’s made all the more fun by the race against time, combined with the banter between the scrapyard teams (who are often car mechanics or rally drivers), and former Boyzone singer Shane Lynch.

It’s amazing what these guys can pull off an old scrapyard and turn for good! It got me thinking.

Do you ever think you are good for nothing? Consigned to the scrapheap of life. Maybe you feel you are too “past it” at your stage in life, or perhaps you are worried that something that you have done in your past has “blown a head gasket” in your relationship with God?

Well he is the God who makes all things new. He takes us in our brokenness, and through his Son the Lord Jesus Christ, he starts to remake us.

The Bible describes us when we let God get to work on us as we turn back to him as “God’s handiwork or God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do".

I think of John Newton a man who knew Huntingdon well 250 years ago. He went from trafficking and selling humans, forcibly removing them from their homes to helping campaign against the slave trade and ended up writing the world’s most famous hymn, Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now I’m found. Was blind but now I see”.

So don’t despair. Don’t think you are beyond love or usefulness. Why not get along to a local church and discover more about the God who is rebuilding a people from very surprising material. It’s a lot like Scrapyard Supercar!

Thanks for listening and have a great day!

Charlie Newcombe 22NOV23.