Remember Grandpa's Truck

Remember Grandpa’s Truck?

At church the other day someone said they had a few old vehicles along the fence row out back.   Many of us who love the old metal would immediately become very anxious to see such a back yard museum.  I feel it while driving along the highway and I spot that timeworn iron in the distance, under a tree, at the back of some field, or poking out from behind a collapsing farm building.  They have been taken out of service for one reason or another and left behind by the onward march of time.  What happened?  Where is the owner?  Who drove it last?  Was there a child who rode in this truck, his grandpa’s truck, on summer vacations?  Are these forgotten forever?  Is there anything that can be done to revive that old truck?  How could someone just give up and quit the old ride?  There is so much more good living and driving to be done!   There are those among us who long to see every old truck restored and brought back to the open road.  Yet, there they are, abandoned, old, rusty, neglected, trucks!   It seems like such a sad ending for so many!

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.   2 Peter 3:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:    2 Peter 2: 9

Fenders Off

Fenders Off!

Fenders off!  The fenders had to come off!  Considering the truck is about 58 years old it is amazing how sturdy the metal.  They were made of real steel in those days.   However, the deeper I looked into the old truck, under the hood, under the fenders, down to the frame; the more I began to notice a serious problem.  Rust is the cancerous sin of the iron truck.  No matter how they look on the street, they all have ‘it’ somewhere.  Rust is working silently to destroy all trucks.  It is just a matter of time.  In order for the old truck to be rescued, redeemed, reclaimed, and restored some one must get down to the frame. 

¹⁴ For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; ¹⁶ for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. ¹⁷ But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him…                                                                                   Psalms 103:14-17 (ESV)

Sitting in the Yard

There are a number of things any of us could accomplish today.  I saw my old truck just sitting there in the yard again today.  Old!  No motor!  No power!  No work today!  I often referred to the old truck as 'Kansas Yard Art.'  It looks pretty good just setting there, from a safe distance.  Did I mention "no motor?"  The old truck will do nothing today.  She will just sit there, again.  The fact is when just sitting in the yard, from a distance, we all look pretty good.  There are a number of things any one of us could accomplish today!

 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.                                                Heb 13:20-21 (KJV)