The word Vintage originally had to do with wine that was good because it had aged. A vintage car is one that was manufactured from 2030 to 2019, older than 2019 is an antique, and from about 1990 to 1930 is a classic car. I was born in 1948 so that makes me a classic.

I worked for several hours today on the 1969 Mustang that my grandson, Isaac and I have been restoring for the last three and a half years. It is coming along nicely and hopefully we will be all done with it by Valentines Day. Isaac worked on the interior and I worked on the electrical. We should be ready to do the body work and painting in a couple of weeks. I have been watching You Tube videos on how to do the sanding and painting and I am close to being an expert! I enjoy very much doing car restoration projects, and when we finish the Mustang I am going to start on a 1950 Ford Club Coupe with a Flathead V8 in it, that is going to be super fun.

God is doing restoration projects on us. He is in the process of making us like Jesus in character. He uses different tools on us like I do on the Mustang. Issac and I have a goal and that is to restore the car to it’s original look and feel. God’s goal is to make us look like and act like Jesus. The closer He can get us to Jesus in character the more we will enjoy heaven when we get there and the more we will enjoy Him and He us.

The car is totally dead, it doesn’t do anything in the process of making it look like new, it just sits there. We on the other hand must cooperate with the work of God or we will be a non-living project as well. What our part is in our becoming new is to rejoice always, and never, ever complain, not eve a little bit. The more we rejoice the faster we change, that is God’s rule. It isn’t natural or easy to rejoice about everything, but it is doable if we commit to it every day asking God for the strength to do it. Come on, let’s do this together.