Wax is a must-have for furniture restoration.
We can reglue joints, sand and strip the top, and even replace broken legs. Yet, some cracks won’t return to their original position no matter how firmly we clamp them together.
Take the top of a table made of three boards. With age, the wood naturally shrinks. The restorer must make a plan to bring the surface back to perfection. If the crack is wide enough, a thin strip of wood can be inserted to fill the void. Smaller cracks can be repaired with small amounts of putty.
The tiniest imperfections that mar the gleam of the surface can be smoothed away with special wax that’s tinted the color of the finish. Heat, drip, smooth, and the surface looks new again.
Even so, the best restoration is when we don’t require wax at all. The ancient Romans had a phrase for wood that was perfect with no wax at all.
Sine cera.
Without wax. The word we now know as sincere.
That’s who we must be as Christians. Sine cera. Without wax. Sincere in everything we say and do. Truthful and honest in the life we live.
Colossians 3:9-11 (NIV) tells us:
“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.”
We serve Christ arm-in-arm. We are as brothers and sisters before him. We live in the image of our Creator. We share the pew, offer the ride, pray the prayer … and we never consider the ethnic background, the color of the skin, or the economic resources others have at their disposal.
We live transparently, truthfully, a truly wax-free life.
We live side by side, sincere in our faith and love for our fellow man.
Slave or free, Christ must be all, and he must be in all.
It’s the only way to live sincerely and honestly as Christians before the world.
Christ expects it. You can do it. Now, let’s get started.
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