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.