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The barber said the shiny old Thunderbird out front was maybe worth $30-40,000.  “It’s a fifty-five.”

We laughed about how old things in new condition can be worth more than new things in new condition.  There aren’t that many really old things in new condition – you get one, it’s valuable.  You’re paying for overcoming the natural law of deterioration.  You can do the restoration yourself and pay with your work and time, or you can pay for someone else’s work and time.  But someone pays and works for restoration. 

It’s the same with people, but different.  Your body’s the T-Bird and there’s deterioration – you see it and feel it if you’re anything over 30-years old.  You can restore things and hold off the deterioration, but only to a point, and even that requires work and constant oversight.  Diet,  Denial.  Exercise.  You can shine up the outside with lifts and tucks but it still doesn’t look like new.

Your soul and spirit is a different deal.  It’s born a wreck, so wrecked it can’t be restored.  It’s condemned and needs to be replaced.  That’s what Jesus does, when you agree you’re a hunk of junk doomed to the scrapheap and trust only him to restore you.  But once that’s done a whole new dynamic gets started.  Your spirit never deteriorates!  You can ignore it, reject it, starve it to where you may not get the full benefit from it.  But no matter what you do or how many decades pass, your spirit will not stop being what it is with the potential to roar like that T-Bird when it was brand-new. 

You see it in front of the barber shop, in your mirror, and in your Bible:  Outwardly wasting away but inwardly being renewed day-by-day.  Putting on a new self and taking off the old -- the perishable putting on the imperishable.  Transformed, from one degree of glory to another.  A new creation and birth, with a new heart and spirit.  The path of the righteous is like the early morning that gets brighter and brighter until the sun fully blazes.  

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