Macon’s Moments: Classic or Custom?

If you frequent any regular car show that might happen during the summer months, you will see various grades and qualities a variety of cars. They are often divided into groups of make, model, or year, but they are judged upon completely different criteria. As the judging takes place, the owner is to identify in which class their car will be competing. There are several different types of classes but the two most common are Custom and Classic.
The custom class is just as it sounds, and contains cars that have been modified in any way at all. Simple changes that most common non-experts would notice can put a car in this class. If the radio is not original or has been upgraded, the car must be entered into the custom class. If the paint is slightly a different color, then the care must be entered into the custom class. Custom is for cars that are not considered to be exactly as they were when they came off the assembly line. However, the class for classic cars is much more meticulous. The prized cars in this category come exactly as they did when they were first assembled in Detroit. Many times cars in this class will have been restored with meticulous care to ensure that they are perfect, and some will even carry paperwork that justifies their claim of authenticity. These cars are exactly as the manufacturer expected them to be, and they are highly prized for it.
We can find our lives so modified and changed. We insert things into our existence that God did not intend to be there, and we live wondering why life doesn’t function in the way that it is meant to. Some are convinced that modification and customization is the way to go in this life, and they seem like they have it all together. However, they have things that don’t quite fit in their life underneath it all.
Just as classic cars are prized by the collector, God prizes those of us who are willing to become what he intended us to be when he “rolled us out of the factory”. We might me damaged, broken, not operating, missing vital pieces, and seen as worthless to the world. Luckily, we have a God that can restore us to our intended glory if we are willing to give ourselves over to him. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17).