A new craze on YouTube reveals how to bring old pressed steel toy cars back to life.
They are Tonka, Nylint, Buddy L or other cars, trucks, or vans from half a century ago. They were meant to be played with, and many of them are battered and rusted, some so badly they seem beyond redemption.
Here’s what saves them: a visit to a sandblasting machine.
The YouTube videos show the hosts disassembling the toys and sandblasting away the rust to reveal the brilliant steel underneath, ready for refinishing.
Here’s the vital part of this: Every bit of the rust must be gone if the restoration is to hold up. Leave any in the cracks or crevices, and it will blossom once again, destroying the host’s hard work.
Romans 6:11-12, 14 says the same premise applies to our salvation. Every bit of sin must be sandblasted away to reveal the brilliance of our new self. Then God can begin to apply his beauty to our lives.
“So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.”
God wants to sandblast away our sin until we shimmer with the brilliance of our redemption in him.
Those pressed steel cars receive new paint, new windows, and refreshed wheels. They soon look new again.
That’s us when we accept God’s salvation. He restores us to new, and we shine with the light of his love.
When God sandblasts away our sin, there’s none left to be found, and we shine with his beautiful light of love.
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