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Heaps, hot rods and death
By kirk noonan | March 12, 2008
Boyd Coddington, a legendary hot rod builder and subject of the cable program American Hot Rod, died recently. The car builder who wore bright Hawaiian shirts and a baseball cap was a leader in the car customization industry.
I had never heard of Coddington until I saw an episode of American Hot Rod a few years ago. In the following months I became an avid view
er, which was surprising because I had never been an aficionado of cars — let alone hot rods.
What I loved most about the show was how Coddington and his crew could take a miserable heap and turn it into something absolutely spectacular. To do that, the crew would strip an automobile to its barest essentials before painstakingly designing, reconstructing, fabricating and assembling a far superior automobile than the one that was dragged into the shop.
No doubt there are countless spiritual analogies that could be drawn between the restoration of those cars and the work God can do in our lives, so I’ll let the reader draw his or her own conclusions. But it is worth mentioning we do have a choice in this life. We can choose to live life like we’re driving in a heap or we can ask a Master Designer to build us something spectacular.
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March 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am
There is no better restorer or more efficient general contractor than God! No matter how many holes are kicked into us as children, no matter what evils we are allowed to learn and absorb as youth and no matter to what degree we seem to be rusted away, God has the fix. I am always astonished when I hear the testimony of the fallen and recovered. You are so astute to see the correlation Kirk. We are born into this world shiny and new and immediately begin to collect the dirt and rust of the fallen. I am so thrilled that someone along my life’s path applied the bondo of God to me and my spirit. Your observation is just evidence that with our eyes and hearts open, we can find God in most everything. All can be seen as a parable to the love of Jesus Christ.